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Wine explicitly disallows contributions from anyone who has seen Microsoft Windows source code: https://wiki.winehq.org/Developer_FAQ#Who_can.27t_contribute...

Also, their Clean Room Guidelines: https://wiki.winehq.org/Clean_Room_Guidelines

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Sure but the WINE folk don’t really know either way if a contributor who contributes has seen it, unless they do some background checks or their email literally ends with @microsoft.com (even then they could be in another Microsoft team away from Windows)

Of course, but they've insulated themselves as best they can.

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