Re: Winetricks may be inciting copyright infringement

2014-08-12 Thread Jonathan Paugh
On 08/12/2014 07:49 AM, Hendrik Weimer wrote: Ricardo Mones writes: On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 02:07:17PM +0200, Hendrik Weimer wrote: Mateusz Jończyk writes: Unfortunately, many libraries that it distributes are illegal to install on Linux or it is legal to install them under limited circum

Re: Winetricks may be inciting copyright infringement

2014-08-12 Thread Hendrik Weimer
Nick Oosterhof writes: > Winetricks is part of contrib, and the debian website states "Every > package in contrib must comply with the DFSG." [1]. > > If winetricks turns out to be DFSG incompatible (the requirement of > having a MS Windows license suggests that is the case), maybe it > should be

Re: Winetricks may be inciting copyright infringement

2014-08-12 Thread Hendrik Weimer
Ricardo Mones writes: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 02:07:17PM +0200, Hendrik Weimer wrote: >> Mateusz Jończyk writes: >> >> > Unfortunately, many libraries that it distributes are illegal to install on >> > Linux or it is legal to install them under limited circumstances (such as >> > having a Win

Re: Winetricks may be inciting copyright infringement

2014-08-12 Thread Nick Oosterhof
On Aug 12, 2014, at 2:07 PM, Hendrik Weimer wrote: > Mateusz Jończyk writes: > >> Unfortunately, many libraries that it distributes are illegal to install on >> Linux or it is legal to install them under limited circumstances (such as >> having a Windows license). > > So what? winetricks is no

Re: Winetricks may be inciting copyright infringement

2014-08-12 Thread Ricardo Mones
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 02:07:17PM +0200, Hendrik Weimer wrote: > Mateusz Jończyk writes: > > > Unfortunately, many libraries that it distributes are illegal to install on > > Linux or it is legal to install them under limited circumstances (such as > > having a Windows license). > > So what? wi

Re: Winetricks may be inciting copyright infringement

2014-08-12 Thread Hendrik Weimer
Mateusz Jończyk writes: > Unfortunately, many libraries that it distributes are illegal to install on > Linux or it is legal to install them under limited circumstances (such as > having a Windows license). So what? winetricks is not part of main, so it is the responsibility of the user to ensur

Winetricks may be inciting copyright infringement

2014-08-12 Thread Mateusz Jończyk
Hello, Winetricks [1] is a package for easily installing many programs and libraries into Wine. It is quite popular with Wine users. Among many programs, it allows installing IE 6, IE7, IE8, all versions of .NET from 1.1 to 4.5 and some parts of DirectX. Unfortunately, many libraries that it distr