I've been fighting against the notion that the wine project encourages cracks for some time now. Cracked versions of apps are bad because they are a) illegal (at least in the US), b) disrespectful of the author of the app, and c) much more likely to be infected with malware.
One place we still do it is in our appdb ratings definitions; http://appdb.winehq.org//help/?sTopic=maintainer_ratings which say "Gold: Application works flawlessly with some DLL overrides or other settings, crack etc. " I propose that we change the appdb ratings definitions so that an app that only works with a crack gets no higher than bronze. Any objections? - Dan
