Mono (& Moonlight) Licensing? Revisited

[King InuYasha]

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>wrote:

> King InuYasha wrote:
> > I really don't see why you should freak out over Moonlight, if Mono is
> > protected, then Moonlight 2 should be protected, since it is a form of
> > Mono itself.
>
> Moonlight needs to go to RPM Fusion anyway because it needs to link to
> FFmpeg, unless you want to use the proprietary codec pack from M$ (yuck!).
> So it's no use arguing about whether Moonlight itself is patent-encumbered
> or not.
>
>        Kevin Kofler
>
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Then don't use FFmpeg. And since Moonlight itself will not contain the MS
codec pack, it can still fit in main Fedora repositories. If you don't want
to do that, then find someone knowledgeable in GStreamer to write a
GStreamer media backend for Moonlight.
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