{"id":881,"date":"2009-07-01T16:42:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T23:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanorser.com\/wordpress\/?p=881"},"modified":"2009-07-01T16:42:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T23:42:03","slug":"mono-not-leaving-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/01\/mono-not-leaving-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"MONO not leaving Ubuntu."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an announcement in the Ubuntu devel announce digest Mono will not leave Ubuntu. Mono has patent issues with the\u00a0 original developer. ( Not sure why or what will come with it.) Ubuntu has put Mono developed applications in their OS before.<\/p>\n<p>The Ubuntu Technical Board has written this statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Ubuntu Technical Board has been asked for a position statement on<br \/>\nthe use of C#, specifically the Mono implementation, by applications in<br \/>\nUbuntu.<\/p>\n<p>These applications, as well as the Mono stack, were proposed for<br \/>\ninclusion like any other application and underwent the same review<br \/>\nprocess that all new applications and platforms undergo before being<br \/>\naccepted into the archive.<\/p>\n<p>With specific regard to the default installed application set,<br \/>\napplications have been reviewed and compared against each other on merit<br \/>\nand features. \u00a0These often take place during the Ubuntu Developer<br \/>\nSummits, most recently over the default media player.<\/p>\n<p>A common concern cited about Mono is the patent position, largely it<br \/>\nseems due to the originator of the C# language and associated ECMA<br \/>\nstandards.<\/p>\n<p>The Ubuntu Project takes patent issues seriously, and the Ubuntu<br \/>\nTechnical Board is the governance body that handles allegations of<br \/>\npatent infringement. \u00a0The Ubuntu Technical Board strives to engage with<br \/>\nrights holder openly in terms of the code that we ship. \u00a0If a rights<br \/>\nholder claims a patent infringement applies to said code, the Technical<br \/>\nBoard will commit to a review of the claim.<\/p>\n<p>The Ubuntu Technical Board has received no claims of infringement<br \/>\nagainst the Mono stack, and is not aware of any such claims having been<br \/>\nreceived by other similar projects.<\/p>\n<p>It is common practice in the software industry to register patents as<br \/>\nprotection against litigation, rather than as an intent to litigate.<br \/>\nThus mere existence of a patent, without a claim of infringement, is not<br \/>\nsufficient reason to warrant exclusion from the Ubuntu Project.<\/p>\n<p>(While the Ubuntu project wishes to be responsive to patent infringement<br \/>\nclaims, we cannot commit to the assessment and review of claims made by<br \/>\nanyone other than the registered rights holder.)<\/p>\n<p>Given the above, the Ubuntu Technical Board sees no reason to exclude<br \/>\nMono or applications based upon it from the archive, or from the default<br \/>\ninstallation set.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Mono stack is already a dependency of the default installation<br \/>\nset for many remixes of Ubuntu, including the Desktop Edition, there is<br \/>\nno reason to consider a dependency on Mono as an issue when suggesting<br \/>\napplications for the default set.<\/p>\n<p>(Other remixes may obviously consider the CD Size implications if an<br \/>\napplication would introduce the Mono platform to the set.)<\/p>\n<p>Scott<br \/>\non behalf of the Ubuntu Technical Board<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nScott James Remnant<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thats all for now,<br \/>\nRyan Orser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an announcement in the Ubuntu devel announce digest Mono will not leave Ubuntu. Mono has patent issues with the\u00a0 original developer. ( Not sure why or what will come with it.) Ubuntu has put Mono developed applications in their OS before. The Ubuntu Technical Board has written this statement: The Ubuntu Technical Board has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}