Windows 2008 Server Standard Licences

eyanson · Post by **eyanson** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:24 pm

Hi. I need know what windows licences I will need to use wine.
sample: connection licence, terminal server licence

thanks

David Gerard · Post by **David Gerard** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:31 pm

2009/4/23 eyanson <[email protected]>:

Hi. I need know what windows licences I will need to use wine.
sample: connection licence, terminal server licence

None whatsoever, that's why the project exists

The only license to worry about is the copyright licence, the LGPL, if
you distribute copies of the software. But as a user that's pretty
much no problem to you at all. If you make modified versions of Wine
you're fine if you make your modified version freely available to all,
and that also helps make Wine better.

- d.

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:31 pm

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:24 PM, eyanson <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi. I need know what windows licences I will need to use wine.
sample: connection licence, terminal server licence

No licenses needed. Wine does not work on windows machines. And you do
not connect wine in any way to a windows network.

John

eyanson · Post by **eyanson** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:41 pm

I have a linux client and a windows server with same windows applications.
My question is, how many licences I will need in windows and terminal server.

thanks

John Drescher wrote:On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:24 PM, eyanson <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi. I need know what windows licences I will need to use wine.
sample: connection licence, terminal server licence

No licenses needed. Wine does not work on windows machines. And you do
not connect wine in any way to a windows network.

John

David Gerard · Post by **David Gerard** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:52 pm

2009/4/23 eyanson <[email protected]>:

I have a linux client and a windows server with same windows applications.
My question is, how many licences I will need in windows and terminal server.

That we'd have no idea about, unfortunately ... it depends entirely
what the licenses for the applications and for Windows Server actually
say. This would require closely reading the EULAs.

(Some Microsoft licenses do claim you are not allowed to run the
software on anything but Windows. Whether this would stand up in court
is another matter. Of course, I can't advise you on this ...)

I can say, however, that if the apps' licenses let you run them on any
OS you want to, you needn't worry about licensing arrangements for the
use of Wine per se.

- d.

Thunderbird · Post by **Thunderbird** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:56 pm

If you need to run programs from a windows server then you likely want to use a some rdp client for linux to connect to your windows terminal server. If you want to run some Windows app on Linux (e.g. Office or whatever) then you need to check what license you got for your app. You would install the app on the Linux machine, the windows server wouldn't be used.