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Posted in Microsoft, Mono, Novell at 8:51 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
I installed the 64-bit version of the Moonlight plugin for Firefox, and tested it on the following listed test site:
http://www.mason-zimbler.com/festivegreetings/
=> ↺ http://www.mason-zimbler.com/festivegreetings/
I was subsequently greeted by a dialogue box entitled “Moonlight Codecs Installer”:
Would you like to install the required add-on to play the content of this page?This page requires the Microsoft Media Pack to be installed to play multimedia content.If you choose, the software will be automatically downloaded and installed from Microsoft’s web site.[] Do not ask me to install this add-on again[Cancel] [Install Codecs]
Clicking on “Install Codecs” results in this the following message being displayed:
End User License Agreement
Before the required software can be installed, you must first agree to
the End User License Agreement below.
MICROSOFT PRE-RELEASE SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS
MICROSOFT MEDIA PACK 1.0
ONLY FOR USE WITH NOVELL'S MOONLIGHT 1.0 RUNNING IN AN INTERNET BROWSER
These license terms are an agreement between Microsoft Corporation (or
based on where you live, one of its affiliates) and you. Please read
them. They apply to the software named above, which includes the media
on which you received it, if any. The terms also apply to any Microsoft
- Updates (including but not limited to bug fixes, patches,
updates, upgrades, enhancements, new versions, and successors
to the software, collectively called "Updates"),
- supplements,
- Internet-based services, and
- support services
for this software, unless other terms accompany those items. If so,
those terms apply.
By using the software, you accept these terms. If you do not accept
them, do not use the software.
If you comply with these license terms, you have the rights below.
copies of the software only with the software identified above running
in an Internet browser on a personal computer.
Novell’s Moonlight 1.0 but in no event later than June 1, 2009.
may not work the way a final version of the software will. We may
change it for the final, commercial version. We also may not release a
commercial version.
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- transfer the software or this agreement to any third party.
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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
The license for this software is as follows (from moon/LICENSE):
- Moonlight source code (src/, plugin/) Unless explicitly stated, this code is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL 2 license only (no “later versions”).
Why isn’t Moonlight licensed under GPLv3?
In addition to the GNU LGPL, this code is available for relicensing for non-LGPL use, contact Novell for details (mono@novell.com). We consider non-LGPL use instances where you use this on an embedded system where the end user is not able to upgrade the Moonlight installation or distribution that is part of your product (Section 6 and 7), you would have to obtain a commercial license from Novell (consider software burned into a ROM, systems where end users would not be able to upgrade, an embedded console, a game console that imposes limitations on the distribution and access to the code, a phone platform that prevents end users from upgrading Moonlight).
This seems to preclude distributing Moonlight on a LiveCD or other immutable medium, which seems like a rather odd restriction.
I then tried to build Moonlight by following the instructions given in the link you provided:
Download and install the moon tarball or moon SVN module from SVN: * configure like this: ./configure * Build and install, run: make && make install * To install the plugin in your home: make test-plugin
moon]$ ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
I notice you now use an autogen script, so I assume the above information is now out of date. Perhaps you could update that page to reflect this change.
After manually resolving difficulties with missing build dependencies (expat-devel, firefox-devel), I then proceeded with the build, but encountered this error:
"application.cpp:18:37: mono/metadata/appdomain.h: No such file or directory"
And the build failed.
So I installed the following to meet this missing dependency (including sub-dependants):
mono-core, mono-devel, mono-data, mono-winforms, mono-web
And tried again, but encountered yet another error:
checking for MONO... configure: error: Package requirements (mono >= 2.2) were not met:
Requested 'mono >= 2.2' but version of Mono is 1.2.5.1
After checking “./configure –help” for clues, I discovered that I needed to disable managed code to remove this dependency, so I tried again with the “–with-managed=no” flag set, but I still received exactly the same error.
application.cpp:18:37: error: mono/metadata/appdomain.h: No such file or directory
Even though this file does exist:
/usr/include/mono-1.0/mono/metadata/appdomain.h
At this point, I’m basically stuck.
So the question is, how do I, or anyone else who wishes to only use Free Software, view the contents of that Web page?
Also, when can I expect to see a prebuilt package of Moonlight, built against Free Software codecs rather than Microsoft’s proprietary software, in my distro’s repo? █
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