Tim Smith wrote:
> In article <iqkvg6xtal.ln2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Jerry McBride <jmcbride@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> What? No mono???? I'll be certain to buy a copy... Although my
>> favorite distribution is Gentoo, I always support the other
>> distributions... especially when they do something smart, like
>> dumping mono....
>
> It has Mono. All that's changing is the reason that its not on the
> live CD.
>
> Fedora 10: They wanted to include a note app, but did not have room for
> Tomboy and Mono, so Mono was not on the live CD. It was in the
> repository, so could be installed later.
>
> Fedora 11: Same as 10.
>
> Fedora 12: There is room for GNote, so they can now add a note app
>to the live CD. No change in Mono--still available in the repository,
>just like 11 and 10.
FWN/Issue180
<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue#What_is_the_official_Fedora_policy_on_Mono.3F>
<quote>
What is the official Fedora policy on Mono?
Arthur Pemberton asked: "Fedora traditionally holds fairly strict
guidelines for inclusion of software, and the pursuit of Free
Software. As such I consider their decisions on such things to be
quite important. With that in mind, I would like to ask: what is the
official Fedora policy on Mono? Specifically in terms to its FOSS
nature and legality."
Paul W Frields, Fedora Project Leader responds:
Until certain ambiguities such as those concerning Mono's patent
licensing and redistribution are resolved, there is no formal policy
that I'm aware of. We have concerns which are being researched, and
any official policy would likely come through Fedora Legal and the
Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. The substitution of Gnote for
Tomboy on the Desktop Live image and in the default installation for
Fedora 12 reduces package load in the standard Fedora Desktop Live
image, but for now Mono remains in the Fedora repositories.
</quote>
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