Am Dienstag, den 24.01.2006, 12:03 +0100 schrieb Ralf Corsepius: > On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 11:43 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Am Dienstag, den 24.01.2006, 10:22 +0000 schrieb Paul F. Johnson: > > >[...] > > > I only set a deadline for yesterday to allow people to hand in a > > "fedora-extras should forbid mono packages in extras" proposal. Nothing > > showed up so there is nothing to discuss for FESCo afaics (the FESCo > > members were all quiet, too). > > > > So it seems the old rule applies: If it's allowed in Core it's also fine > > for Extras. > Grumble, once more: > > According to RH until recently, mono/C#/.net are subject to potential > patent claims. Yes, until recently. > Some weeks ago, RH pushed Mono etc. in FC - I repeatedly had asked to > explain (Last time on a PM to YOU in person, yesterday), to elaborate > what made RH to consider their former claim to be invalid. > > No response, so far. "Business considerations that prevented certain Mono components from being included in Fedora previously have now been resolved." I (as most other people outside of the Fedora Foundation or Red Hat) don't know more details. > > > over allowing mono apps into FE? I don't want > > > to waste my time packaging for FE with mono if they're not allowed in. > > As FE packager, you have signed the CLA. As part of such you have signed > a paragraph on potential patent infringements. It's up to you to draw > conclusions of your own. > > Mine is: I will not approve any package which uses Mono/C#/.NET, because > I don't know what about the legal situation has changed. I will continue > to consider all such works to be too risky for me to be wanting to be > involved into packing them and to avoid users to be exposed to legal > risks. Okay. Then don't package apps based on Mono/C#/.NET. > I am willing to reconsider this opinion, should some RH or FESCO > spokesperson be able to elaborate the legal situation of Mono etc. I can't give more details because I don't know more. But I'm willing to trust Red Hat here -- they allowed it for Core and I see no reason why we should forbid it in Extras. That would look quite odd anyway... CU thl -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
