[Fedora-legal-list] http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jun 29 15:01:12 UTC 2009



On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Jon Stanley (jonstanley at gmail.com) said:
>> However, I don't think there's anything to worry about here.  The only
>> reason that we ship mono *at all* is that we're covered by some OIN
>> patents on it. I'm not sure which OIN patents those are, but
>> essentially if Microsoft wants to pick that fight,
>
> ... it's not OIN patents, it's that mono is in the OIN list of protected
> packages. Just clarifying.

Does OIN cover the specific version we're carrying? I thought OIN was 
version specific.

-sv




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