wine users - May 2008 - Legal issues for bundling Wine with my Application

Hi

I've recently written some graphic application in windows.
i've was successfull in running it under Linux using Wine.
I had to add gdiplus.dll to the windows/system32 directory.

now for my question.
Is it legal for me to create a "Bundle" Wine with my application and
make it work "native like" under linux - and then sell it?
Meaning that the end user will but a software that will install my application
while it will run under the Wine platform?

my question regards legal issues for Wine but mainly for Microsoft.
since i'm using gdiplus.dll, arent i'm obligated to pay something to
microsoft?

Thanks

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:20 AM, asafbenzaken <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
>  I've recently written some graphic application in windows.
>  i've was successfull in running it under Linux using Wine.
>  I had to add gdiplus.dll to the windows/system32 directory.
Please file a bug for whatever you ran into in gdiplus that made you
need the native DLL.  Perhaps we can fix it.
>  now for my question.
>  Is it legal for me to create a "Bundle" Wine with my application
> and make it work "native like" under linux - and then sell it?
Yes.  Google does this with Picasa (well, they don't sell
it, but that doesn't matter).
>  Meaning that the end user will but a software that will install my
> application while it will run under the Wine platform?
>
>  my question regards legal issues for Wine but mainly for Microsoft.
>  since i'm using gdiplus.dll, arent i'm obligated to pay something
to microsoft?
A better path would be to bundle gdiplus.dll with your Windows
app, and then tell people to run the app with Wine-1.0.
You could provide a script that would download Wine 1.0
and install your app in it, say.
- Dan

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:20 PM, asafbenzaken <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
> Hi
>
>  I've recently written some graphic application in windows.
>  i've was successfull in running it under Linux using Wine.
>  I had to add gdiplus.dll to the windows/system32 directory.
>
>  now for my question.
>  Is it legal for me to create a "Bundle" Wine with my application
and make it work "native like" under linux - and then sell it?
>  Meaning that the end user will but a software that will install my
application while it will run under the Wine platform?
>
>  my question regards legal issues for Wine but mainly for Microsoft.
>  since i'm using gdiplus.dll, arent i'm obligated to pay something
to microsoft?
>
>  Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
>
You should consult a lawyer about this. If you're using native
gdiplus, the issue gets even more complex. You'd be better off filing
bugs for whatever gdi functions are missing/incomplete in wine's
gdiplus, so you could avoid using native.

Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Austin English <austinenglish at
gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > You'd be better off filing
> > bugs for whatever gdi functions are missing/incomplete in wine's
> > gdiplus, so you could avoid using native.
> > 
> 
> As long as his app bundles gdiplus for use on Windows
> systems that need it, he's fine.
If that version/form of gdiplus is an authorized redistributable binary from
Microsoft. They explicitly prohibit redistributions of any parts of the system
unless they give you a redistributable package and a the right to do so.

Thanks for all your replys regarding the legal issues. :D 

about the GDIPLUS DLL
if i understand correctly, there should be no reason for me to add it because
Wine have a ported version of it?
for some reason, i cant find it...