Re: legal problem for using DLL's

2004-02-19 Thread Mike Hearn
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:46:07 +1100, Troy Rollo wrote: > This is not necessarily enough - it's also necessary to read the terms > of the license to see under what circumstances the DLL is > redistributable. A lot of Microsoft's "redistributable" DLLs are only > redistributable if they are to be used

Re: legal problem for using DLL's

2004-02-18 Thread hatky
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 16:40, Erik Dekeyser wrote: > Dear WINE Developers, > > OUR PROBLEM: > We are wondering if we can distribute the Microsoft DLL's with the > application without infringing the copyright of Microsoft. The alternative > is rewrite some of them, but that would require a co

Re: legal problem for using DLL's

2004-02-18 Thread Troy Rollo
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 06:21, Peter Hunnisett wrote: > It all depends on what DLLs you wish to redistribute. Some are explictly > allowed to be and most others not. Generally doing a google for "name of > dll" and "redistributable" will provide you an answer. This is not necessarily enough - it's al

Re: legal problem for using DLL's

2004-02-18 Thread Peter Hunnisett
Erik Dekeyser wrote: Dear WINE Developers, Briefly with Bricscad IntelliCAD we have an almost-clone of AutoCAD and we are very successfull in selling it to large corporations under a Coporate License Agreement. Several of our Corporate clients want to start with implementing LINUX in their or

Re: legal problem for using DLL's

2004-02-18 Thread Vizzini
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 08:40, Erik Dekeyser wrote: > We are wondering if we can distribute the Microsoft DLL's with the > application without infringing the copyright of Microsoft. This depends on which MS DLLs you will distribute. Some of them have licenses which permit redistribution under some

legal problem for using DLL's

2004-02-18 Thread Erik Dekeyser
Dear WINE Developers,   Briefly with Bricscad IntelliCAD we have an almost-clone of AutoCAD and we are very successfull in selling it to large corporations under a Coporate License Agreement. Several of our Corporate clients want to start with implementing LINUX in their organization. For t