2010/5/28, Peter Dolding <[email protected]>: > Does Intel or Nokia have an patent agreement that protects us downstream > with the usage of mono? > > > What are the limits on that agreement. Is it like Novell were we cannot > legally build mono from source and ship it and still keep the patent > coverage. Heck with the Novell agreement we have to always get the mono > binary from Novell to be legal. Also Novell agreement expires in under 3 > years time. > > > Please don't be we are out side the USA so we are safe. Linux Foundation is > inside the USA so has to obey USA rules. > > > Really I cannot start handing meego out until I know if I am legally safe or > not. > > > If it not legally safe everywhere please release a mono free version. > > > Peter Dolding >
Actually, there is no legal reason for Fedora not shipping Mono as default. If there was, it would not be shipped in Fedora at all. A few releases ago a Fedora default installation even had Mono included, due to a default application requiring it. The current default application set does not need Mono for anything, so Mono is also not installed as default. -- Joonas Sarajärvi [email protected] _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
