Getting mono into FC extras

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Sat Mar 19 14:30:54 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 14:05 +0000, Paul wrote:
>AIUI, MS have said that people can use the .NET framework without any
>sort of restriction - which includes on non MS platforms.

Just to reiterate this point:

If someone gets this from Microsoft (the patent holder) in writing, in
the form of a legally binding unrestricted patent grant permitting free
(as in beer) redistribution and use, we can revisit Mono for inclusion.

Same goes for Thomson and mp3.

DVD is a little ickier because of the DMCA.

~spot
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