> I don't agree with this EULA, therefore I can't install this software.
>
> To resolve this problem, I downloaded the sources for Moonlight:
>
> svn co svn://anonsvn.mono-project.com/source/trunk/moon
You should have downloaded the tarball release, which is our official
release.
Only developers use SVN checkouts (or GIT, or Mercurial, or CVS) as
the tree is not only in constant flux it usually requires newer
versions of software as you just witnessed. The same applies to
pretty much every open source project, regular people would not get
Linus' GIT tree as their stock kernel.
If you want plain instructions on building Moonlight with FFMPEG, you
can read the RPM spec files that exist for moonlight, there are plenty
of them.
> Why isn't Moonlight licensed under GPLv3?
Because whoever writes the software gets to choose the license they
use.
I have not researched the GPL3 in depth myself, so before I commit to
it, I need to spend time learning it, and understanding what that
means for the software I write. I know that Linus does not like it,
and for now his opinion on the license weights on my decision.
> This seems to preclude distributing Moonlight on a LiveCD or other
> immutable medium, which seems like a rather odd restriction. Perhaps you
> could explain.
You can upgrade Moonlight if you obtain it from a LiveCD.
miguel
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