On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 14:33 -0500, Brian Kemp wrote: > Don, > > No need for debate. You find it interesting...we did it to death over > on the Gobuntu-devel mailing list. :)
Full archive here - you'd have to search out the specific threads :) https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gobuntu-devel/ > > Mono is in gNewSense. The System.Xml namespace isn't in there for > some reason, but I assume that's just ancient versions talking... (from what i understand) Mono is making its way further into gnome, so parts of it wont really be optional in the future. > > Mono may or may not be patented; Novell was talking about working > around patents that crop up, but since the little deal Microsoft > worked out with them, they may just not care and a fork may be > necessary. It is covered by patents - and thats more then the 'exit codes' patents. > > That being said--Mono is Freely licensed, copyright-wise. > Trademark-wise it isn't an issue, and Patent-wise...isn't an > issue...yet. Its a patent time bomb, and we dont know if it'll explode. I havent seen many people who are happy with the RAND it comes with. > > Therefore as it stands right now it's in gNewSense. It is not > installed by Default. I dont know of anything we removed from our (existing) archives because of patents. > > Gobuntu does have Mono installed by default--I haven't totally > verified this, but I believe F-Spot is written in C# with GTK#, and > F-Spot IS installed by default. (Not that gphoto doesn't work...) last i checked fspot came as 'fspot.exe'... it felt really weird to run it without wine. *grin* > > This means that for the next version of gNewSense, based off of > Gobuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" we will have to make a decision whether we > want to use the .NET stuff. Lets see what happens :) > > Honestly, it doesn't matter to me. It can be added or removed with > ease. sudo aptitude purge and all that. It can at the moment. the question is what might become dependant on it (lacking a crystal ball we have to wait to see what happens). > > Karl Goetz will most likely respond to this with "Mono. Is. Free. > Software." like he's done before on the gobuntu mailing lists. (I'll > save you the trouble, kk :)) cheers :) remember, its _free software_ , but its _patent encumbered_ . kk > > --BK > -- Karl Goetz, Debian user / Ubuntu contributor / gNewSense contributor http://www.kgoetz.id.au _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
