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What would the licensing repercussions of that be, if any?


It's not clear. Many Mac ports are done with Transgaming's tools. Which are commercial and include code from old BSD versions of Wine.

Microsoft isn't actually obligated to sue, so they may have just decided that it wasn't worth while.

The Google/Oracle API copyright decision probably helps Wine.

So they're probably in the clear, but Microsoft could certainly make their lives difficult.




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