From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,43ae7f61992b3213 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: "Joshua E. Rodd" Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/05/03 Message-ID: <372E3C51.47FA3994@iiinet.dhs.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 473707189 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <372A07FE.47AD7982@doc.ic.ac.uk> <7gdd9e$36l$1@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu> <7gdln1$vna$1@jetsam.uits.indiana.edu> <372ADFBD.4F4C241B@doc.ic.ac.uk> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@neo.rr.com X-Trace: dustdevil.neo.rr.com 925776978 24.93.213.213 (Mon, 03 May 1999 20:16:18 EDT) Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online -- Northeast Ohio MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 20:16:18 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: David Kastrup wrote: > But the licenses on many of their own software explicitly prohibit you > to try running their software on, say, something like Wine. Ah, but one could still take Intercal Explorer and run it on any platform you wish--emulator in Bochs, Wine (not that it's technically feasible), or Win32s--because you've never agreed to a contract to not run it in Wine. If you signed a contract with Microsoft that you would not run Intercal Explorer under Wine, that would be different. But not signatures are exchanged when retreiving Intercal Explorer 5 beta 1.002. > It would probably not be enforcible, and of course they are taking > technical measures also all the time to make sure the programs break > on anything but Windows, but it *is* there openly in the license. > Perhaps the DoJ has not noticed? Microsoft *probably* wouldn't bring a civil suit against someone running IE in Wine, either.