On 05/29/2010 09:25 AM, David Greaves wrote: > On 29/05/10 13:21, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: >> I didn't respond to the questions because it seems the other responses >> have already answered. As others have pointed out, Fedora not shipping >> Mono in their LiveCD has nothing to do with "legal issues" as was >> disingenuously insinuated in the original message. > OK. Although I note there were several points raised in the body that > appear valid (ie awaken vague memories from Groklaw over the years and > make me wonder how they apply to MeeGo), and remain unaddressed. I > don't have the background to refute these points.
His other claim was that you needed to get Mono from Novell for it to be "safe". He is confused, the Microsoft Community Promise applies equally to everyone, not just Novell. This has been explained to him numerous times elsewhere, but he continues to twist reality to FUD Mono (hence why I pointed out that he was just trolling). > >> Secondly, you are right that not everyone may know this, but Microsoft >> placed ECMA 334 and 335 under the Microsoft Community Promise around a >> year ago (meaning they have given up the ability to sue over patents >> required to implement those specifications). > Again, thanks; that provides some google food. > Did you intend that answer to invalidate all the other points raised? > (again, just asking for clarity) To save you the trouble, here's the link: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/cp/default.mspx > >> Thirdly, avoiding a piece of software out of fear of it possibly >> infringing a patent is silly > Agreed. > >> For example, you could use the >> very same arguments against the VP8 codec, OpenOffice (hey, it's >> possible it infringes Microsoft patents, right?), and a slew of others. > Agreed - are any of them in MeeGo? I don't believe so, but that isn't an exhaustive list of software that might infringe patents, it was merely an example. > > Is liblame in MeeGo? I understand it's not allowed on the Suse OBS due > to "possibly infringing a patent"? Is that why it's not in MeeGo? AFAIK, mp3 support exists in MeeGo as well. I'm not familiar with what software the multimedia stack consists of, however. Perhaps someone with more knowledge here can answer this. > >> Hope that clears things up, > It is certainly a lot more informative and I hope we can use it to > clarify how these kinds of issues are addressed in future. > > David > Jeff _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
