VMWare / Wine

[Michael R. Head]

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 13:52 +0100, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> E. g. the EULA for IE6 states:
> 
> "NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALID EULA FOR ANY
>  "OS PRODUCT" (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION,
>  MICROSOFT WINDOWS 98, MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT 4.0,
>  MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000, MICROSOFT MILLENNIUM
>  EDITION, MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP, OR ANY OTHER
>  MICROSOFT OPERATING SYSTEM THAT IS A SUCCESSOR
>  TO ANY OF THE FOREGOING OPERATING SYSTEMS) YOU
>  ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO INSTALL, COPY, OR OTHERWISE
>  USE THE OS COMPONENTS AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS
>  UNDER THIS SUPPLEMENTAL EULA."
> 
> (cited from http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/)
> 
> okay, this is not "third party" but you have to agree on it, before you
> can install and use ie6, be it on wine or anything else.

Right. Not third party, so this doesn't count in this argument. IE is
(according to MS a core part of Windows, so it's not legally separable.
Indeed, I wonder what the MS Office license agreement looks like and if
it has any legal requirement to run on Windows.

Indeed, the same page you are pointing to says this (emphasis mine):
        Note that you might have to have a valid license for Microsoft
        Windows to use *some* of the software, especially DCOM98 and
        Internet Explorer 6.

IIRC, Some apps that require IE6 for HTML can even use a firefox-based
implementation of the IE6 interfaces. Also, there are some third party
apps that don't require IE, too. 

So yeah, I'm still not seeing how running third party Windows apps on a
100%-wine foundation would have any legal problems.

> regards
> EbR
> 
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/
http://suppressingfire.livejournal.com
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