Running Visual Basic application without Microsoft licenses
Jani Laakso <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:56:26 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.emulators.wine.license |
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Our company has a need to run an legacy VB program under linux using Wine. Now I am wondering can we do this or not (is it legal?). As everyone knows, Visual Basic applications needs Visual Basic Runtime (e.g. VBRun60.exe). We have Visual Basic .net Professional license and therefore we can deploy our product to all our clients, but in this case we would like to deploy our program to machines that have no Microsoft licenses (if possible). In short: Is it legal to copy following files to our client's linux machines: The file needed is VBRun60.exe, actually when unpacked it contains: 15.07.1997 06:53 74 960 ADVPACK.DLL 17.06.1998 22:32 147 728 ASYCFILT.DLL 31.05.1998 03:06 22 288 COMCAT.DLL 24.06.1998 13:43 1 409 024 msvbvm60.dll 17.06.1998 22:33 598 288 OLEAUT32.DLL 17.06.1998 22:33 164 112 OLEPRO32.DLL 16.06.1998 11:13 17 920 STDOLE2.TLB 30.06.2000 13:45 1 069 vbrun60.inf 15.07.1997 06:53 2 272 W95INF16.DLL 15.07.1997 06:53 4 608 W95INF32.DLL This file can be found from: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=192461 Any comments are greatly welcome as even Microsoft seems to be wondering what their licenses mean, and this case is not trivial. The VB application itself is pretty simple and if it can be run under Wine legally, then we can same over fifty Windows 2000 licenses all thanks to Wine. Best Regards, Jani Laakso -- Jani Laakso / IT Mill Ltd | Tel. +358 40 5898086 | http://www.itmill.com