On Sunday 05 November 2006 11:35, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Unfortunately, the potential issues with exclusionary patent agreements > and any possible solutions probably cannot be limited to Mono though it > is probably the most significant project since the current move sets > political if not legal precedent for patent claims in the future against > other distributions except Novell and even Novell if the agreement isnt > renewed after 5 years. > > Novell is working with Microsoft on virtualisation and openxml format > support which probably results in code to xen and openoffice.org both of > which has significant Novell developers working on them. If these > contributions are under GPL and LGPL respectively then the patent clause > in GPL automatically grants everyone else the necessary rights or would > prevent Novell from distributing the code to anyone. So we are probably > safe with that. Things for Legal to carefully look at. Right, things like OO.org and Xen are less issues due to licensing. However since Novell has the right to re-license Mono at any time, and its already mostly in a license that allows for their contributions, I feel it should be avoided. That's just my opinion. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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