> 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).
The problem is that the original poster was trying to conflate Microsoft's Moonlight 1/2 patent promise from 2007 with the status quo of Mono. Microsoft has made five promises at different times that cover different bits of technology: * Original RAND terms for the C# and CLI in 2001 * Moonlight 1/2 "must get from Novell" terms for Moonlight from 2007 * Community Promise for C#/CLI from 2009 * Moonlight 3/4 "applies to everyone, but you need your own MPEG-LA license" (fixes #2 problem) from 2009 * Microsoft large swats of MS-PL or Apache code now included with Mono (both with patent licenses). Mono's use is #1, #3 and #5. The Moonlight issue was debated heavily in 2007-2009 and Microsoft removed the "You must get it from Novell" terms as it covered the MPEG-LA licensed codecs. It was instead replaced with terms that are identical for Novell and everyone else as far as Moonlight is concerned, but does not include codecs for MPEG-LA owned technologies. Everyone that wants to ship the MPEG-LA codecs needs to negotiate their own (Microsoft distributes codecs to Novell customers on all the Moonlight 1 through 4 cases). _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
