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[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Donnerstag, den 19.01.2006, 10:31 +0000 schrieb Paul F. Johnson:
> Hi,
> 
> > > As the name suggests, it's a mono based package, so you must be happy
> > > with Mono to understand how things are done.
> > Are you sure on the legal situation?

Quoting GregDeKoenigsberg from the Fedora Foundation: "Business
considerations that prevented certain Mono components from being
included in Fedora previously have now been resolved."

> > Unless, the FF, RH or FESCO can explains what has changed about the
> > legal position on Mono with regard to Fedora, I would rather avoid the
> > legal risks of packaging any mono package into Fedora.
> 
> Given that avahi-sharp is in rawhide as is beagle and a few others
> "mono" based packages, inclusion of mysql-connector-net should not be a
> problem, but then, IANAL.

Mono is in rawhide and probably will be in FC5 -- if we like that or not
is a different question. We have to deal with it. People that don't like
these recent happenings have to either live with them or will probably
switch to another Distribution without Mono anyway.

I don't think we can change the "Mono is now in Fedora" if we forbid
mono apps in extras. And it would look rather odd if we have Mono apps
in core, but forbid then in Extras.

Ralf, please take the above into account. If you still think mono in
extras should be forbidden please write a proposal and lay down all the
details for your opinion it it. Send it to the list and to me until next
Monday and I'll forward it to FESCo. We can vote about it in next
Meeting (Thursday next week). We can put all mono apps in extras on hold
until then -- that shouldn't be a big deal. 

CU
thl