On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:28:01 +0100 Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:12:30 -0600, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@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
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 is right on this point. It's distributed under GNU LGPL and the MIT X11 licenses. It's compiled against ffmpeg to support more codecs. But it's wrong what you said, Pierre. If you go to the showcase website of Microsoft for Silverlight, nearly all demos are working with moonlight. Otherwise to avoid some legal issues (which I don't believe that there are one) we can say to our users that they can install it through this website: http://go-mono.com/moonlight/download.aspx Otherwise if someone want to develop silverlight/moonlight application under Arch Linux he can't because of the missing SDK which comes with the package I would build from source. About the "Covenant..." thing, I don't really understand it, it's too much "high" english for me. Daniel