[Wine] Is Wine use legal?
James McKenzie
jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 18 11:56:35 CDT 2012
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 9:50 AM, az <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Hello, is Wine use legal?
>
For what? Normal usage is definitely legal as all Wine does is to
replicate the Windows API/ABI without using any of Microsoft's code
(and this has a long history of being legal)
> I have Windows XP Home OEM, and I emulate Windows XP on Wine, under Linux/Debian.
Use of Wine does not require a Microsoft license. Use of Microsoft's
code may or may not require one.
James
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