Re: Firefox and Moonlight (Mono) "Free Software" Status?

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Les Mikesell wrote:

> I disagree with the FSF on just about every point regarding the best 
> ways to encourage the development and use of open source software, but 
> this position on patents is even more bizarre than usual.  I can sort-of 
> understand the claim that patent coverage is harder to determine, but in 
> cases where it is obvious, how can restrictions imposed by patents be 
> considered any differently than restrictions imposed by other people's 
> copyrights with respect to whether the GPL can be applied to the work as 
> a whole with its explicit claim of redistribution rights under its own 
> terms?

Unlike copyrights, patents are far from universally enforced. If you 
want to further clarifications, I suggest you take it with FSF rather 
than here.

Rahul