Verily I say unto thee, that Terry Porter spake thusly:
> This may be the reason Moonlight does not exist as a *released*
> Ebuild package for Gentoo, as Gentoo builds everything from source.
And also why it can never be distributed by any distro except Novell's,
since one must be a direct "downstream recipient" of that software from
Novell:
http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/covenant_silverlight.html
Therefore this is not Free Software, since it lacks at least one of the
necessary Four Freedoms (the right to distribute).
Although it is rather curious to note, that someone by the name of Jo
Shields seems to be attempting to poison Debian with Moonlight:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501190
Quite how he intends to succeed in this ambition, I'm not entirely sure,
given the above covenant. A more important question, though, is "why"?
--
K.
http://slated.org
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