Dan Kegel wrote: > 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
Hi Dan, in fact a DLL override may be another form of 'crack' - given the situation I'm not owner of a Windows copy and need to override MS DLL which is not free to use without Windows license. I think we should not mix up the functionality ratings with legality ratings. I consider this a politicspeak, not techspeak. Given the problem above - we can solve it by rewording in a similar spirit but leaving the bad word out: "Gold: Application works flawlessly with some DLL overrides or other settings, etc. Copy protection issues are not considered as issues here." Regards Vit