[Mono-dev] moonlight source in mono-2.0

Jeffrey Stedfast fejj at novell.com
Mon Aug 18 18:18:00 EDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 23:02 +0100, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Also... why would the source code need to be removed at all in the
> > source packages anyway? I'm totally lost.
> 
> Moonlight is a forbidden package by fedora (it is considered too dodgy
> due to the unholy pact between Novell and the borg - or something like
> that). This means that they will neither ship the source or the built
> binaries.
> 
> Other examples : MP3, mpeg2 and anything else, which under US law, can
> land them in hot water.
> 
> For that reason, anything to do with moonlight has to be removed from
> the sourceball, therefore the code to build smcs has to go.

but the source to smcs is exactly the same as that of gmcs!?!?

As Yoda might say: "No sense does this logic make."

> 
> TTFN
> 
> Paul
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