[Wine] Legal Issues

L. Rahyen research at science.su
Fri Dec 18 02:00:32 CST 2009


On 2009-12-18 (December, Friday) 06:25:06 army_ant7 wrote:
> I heard that Wine uses Windows apps like Notepad, Wordpad, Regedit, etc...

	Wrong. Wine does not include *Windows* Notepad, etc. Instead, all of these are 
replaced with LGPL-licensed open-source equivalents. Of course, there is a lot 
of difference internally (because whole Wine including Wordpad, Notepad, etc. 
was written from scratch) but to the "end-user" these programs may look similar 
(however even from end-user point of view there are differences between Wine and 
Windows versions of Wordpad, Notepad and other standard programs).

>  Is this legal?

	Yes.



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