Alex Hudson wrote: > Correction: it's now published here - > > http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/newmoonlight.mspx > > To my untrained eye, it seems to cover Moonlight fully, the termination > clause doesn't work retroactively, it includes coverage for the Mono > portions and it seems to apply for everyone - hopefully this is a good > thing. It seems to remove previous objections about Novell-only-ness. This is still non-Free: > Microsoft, on behalf of itself and its Subsidiaries, hereby covenants not > to sue End Users for infringement under Necessary Claims of Microsoft and > its Subsidiaries on account of such End Users’ use of Moonlight > Implementations to the extent originally provided by Novell during the > Term and, if applicable, the Extension or Post-Extension Period, but only > to the extent such Moonlight Implementations are used as Conforming > Runtimes. [...] > “Conforming Runtime” means plug-in or other runtime functionality hosted > by a Conforming Host for receiving and rendering, wholly within such > Conforming Host, media and interactive applications compatible with > Silverlight 3 or Silverlight 4. [...] > “Moonlight Implementation” means only those specific portions of Moonlight > 3 or Moonlight 4 that run only as Conforming Runtimes within a Conforming > Host on a Personal Computer and are not licensed under GPLv3 or a Similar > License. This appears to be a classical "The license only applies if you comply to our standard" restriction, which is non-Free because it doesn't allow using the code for a different purpose (nor to extend the standard, which is kinda ironic coming from a company which keeps extending everyone ELSE's standards with proprietary extensions). As the patent license is non-Free, Moonlight still has to be considered non- Free wherever software patents apply. So as far as I can tell, this is not acceptable for Fedora, sorry. (But of course spot and/or RH Legal will have the final word.) Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
