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[Hans de Goede]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 19.01.2006, 10:31 +0000 schrieb Paul F. Johnson:
>> Hi,
>>
>>>> As the name suggests, it's a mono based package, so you must be happy
>>>> with Mono to understand how things are done.
>>> Are you sure on the legal situation?
> 
> Quoting GregDeKoenigsberg from the Fedora Foundation: "Business
> considerations that prevented certain Mono components from being
> included in Fedora previously have now been resolved."
> 
>>> Unless, the FF, RH or FESCO can explains what has changed about the
>>> legal position on Mono with regard to Fedora, I would rather avoid the
>>> legal risks of packaging any mono package into Fedora.
>> Given that avahi-sharp is in rawhide as is beagle and a few others
>> "mono" based packages, inclusion of mysql-connector-net should not be a
>> problem, but then, IANAL.
> 
> Mono is in rawhide and probably will be in FC5 -- if we like that or not
> is a different question. We have to deal with it. People that don't like
> these recent happenings have to either live with them or will probably
> switch to another Distribution without Mono anyway.
> 
> I don't think we can change the "Mono is now in Fedora" if we forbid
> mono apps in extras. And it would look rather odd if we have Mono apps
> in core, but forbid then in Extras.
> 
> Ralf, please take the above into account. If you still think mono in
> extras should be forbidden please write a proposal and lay down all the
> details for your opinion it it. Send it to the list and to me until next
> Monday and I'll forward it to FESCo. We can vote about it in next
> Meeting (Thursday next week). We can put all mono apps in extras on hold
> until then -- that shouldn't be a big deal. 
> 

Erm,

I assumed that the mono embargo was lifted and such I've already made 
und pushed versions of libgda and libgnomedb with the mono bindings 
enabled (trying to get all my packages in good shape for the mass rebuild)

Regards,

Hans