[arch-dev-public] Moonlight in Arch Linux
Pierre Schmitz
pierre at archlinux.de
Tue Dec 22 12:28:01 EST 2009
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:12:30 -0600, Aaron Griffin
<aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>> However, isn't there some legal issues with Moonlight? I saw recently
>>> that Microsoft "pledged" not to sue Moonlight users....
>>
>> There are no issues as software patents do not exist for us. :P
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems#Moonlight
Moonlight is licensed under the GPL. Who cares what patent problems it
might have in the US?
Of course this plugin is quite useless anyway (only works with firefox and
those few sites using silverlight only seem to support the microsoft
implementation). But I am fine with it if Daniel wants to maintain it.
--
Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
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