Patents, GNOME, Mono [Was: Adding Beagle, tomboy and ifolder to Hoary]

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Olafur Arason">

> I agree that we can throw mono and application that depend upon it if
> there is some problems, but I think we should include it for now because
> of applications like beagle and tomboy.

I, personally, would like to see Beagle supported for Hoary, in the Desktop
seed. If we can't do that, then it would be great to have it in universe.

> But I do understand that beagle is a big enough feature that you have to
> support it unless you make it optional. And I do understand that you don't
> want to tie up your developers with supporting mono and c#.

We support lots of software written in all kinds of languages. That's not
going to be a huge issue in the way of us supporting it.

> But I do see mono as a real feature for python because you have instant
> scriptability and extendability. Because of IronPython.

We can do that independently of IronPython and Mono.

- Jeff

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