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Re:Valve Confirms They are Working on a Steam Box by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday December 09, 2012 @04:31PM (#4896206)
I have a feeling they might just use wine for games that are known to work fine under it.
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Re:Valve Confirms They are Working on a Steam Box by SquareWheel on Sunday December 09, 2012 @04:49PM (#4896272)
What would the licensing repercussions of that be, if any?
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Re:Valve Confirms They are Working on a Steam Box by wmil on Sunday December 09, 2012 @06:52PM (#4896729)
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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