On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Paul F. Johnson <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > As you may be aware, Novell recently sold itself/merged/whatever to > another company with the transfer of 882 patents to MS. No idea what > this will mean with the SCO legal case, but hey. > > My question regards Mono now. With the sale of Novell and MS gaining a > pile of patents, will this affect the inclusion of Mono and the mono > sub-packages into Fedora? I know the licence is OSS happy (else it > wouldn't be allowed in), but will the sale change this (change of > ownership, revokation of the licence etc)? AFAIK the reason mono & friends are allowed at all are that they are protected by the OIN, which didn't change. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
