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Wine c.f. Mono



I know the the question "Why no Mono in Fedora?" has been asked/answered/argued to death, I'm not trying to re-ignite that again.

Given that Mono is not allowed into Fedora (because it implements ECMA standards 334/335 for C#/CLR which may infringe Microsoft patents) why is it that Wine (which implements ECMA standard 234 for Win16 API and may also infringe Microsoft patents) is being considered for inclusion into Fedora Extras?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=171526

Searching uspto.gov for assignee=Microsoft and abstract=API provides many possible patents that Wine could infringe, though as pointed out in section 6 of http://www.kegel.com/remedy/remedy2.html nothing has forced Microsoft to reveal which of those may protect Windows.

Is it largely a question of how far "behind the curve" Wine is perceived to be compared to how close to "snapping at the heels" Mono is seen?



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