The sale of Novell

[drago01]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Paul F. Johnson
<paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> 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.