Mono apps in extras

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 13:27 -0500, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> > > "Business considerations that prevented certain Mono components from
> > > being included in Fedora previously have now been resolved."
> 
> > This doesn't answer my question. RH business considerations are
> > irrelevant here. We are having a legal problem here, which we needs to
> > be clarified to protect ourselves and FE's users.
>  
> > > I (as most other people outside of the Fedora Foundation or Red Hat)
> > > don't know more details. 
> 
> > Great, ... master piece of communication with RH ... ;)
> > 
> > How about you asking your predecessor GDK, on behalf of FESCO? 
> > 
> > http://fedora.redhat.com/About/contact.html lists him as the FF's "legal
> > inquiries" contact person.
> 
> That *was* my statement, directly from my blog.  It's still my statement.  
> "Business considerations that prevented certain Mono components from being
> included in Fedora previously have now been resolved."
> 
> I don't like it.  No one likes it, near as I can tell.  It is what it is.

Superb - I hope you understand, what this makes you and RH look like to
me - "Community orientation" definitely looks different.

> If and when I can say more, I assure you that I will.
OK, then let's take "Mono's role as too uncooked" and postpone all
decisions on Mono until you can say more.

Ralf