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Posted in GNOME, GNU/Linux, GPL, Microsoft, Mono, Novell, Red Hat at 2:05 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Gnote will be included in Fedora 10 and Fedora 11, which is out shortly
THE developer of Gnote moved to Fedora a few days ago. Fedora is known for its realisation and insistence on Freedom (although it does not go far enough for some). A lot of this is caused by legal precaution and Fedora already blocks Moonlight for this reason alone.
=> moved to Fedora a few days ago | ↺ it does not go far enough for some | already blocks Moonlight for this reason alone
Gnote is a perfectly acceptable application which performs gracefully. According to this conversation, “The Fedora project further confirms this [that Gnote is fine] by including Gnote in Fedora 10 and 11.” Moreover: “Gnote is GPLv3-or-later, so it can always be distributed under the terms of the latest version of the GPL.”
=> performs gracefully | ↺ this conversation
“Gnote is a perfectly acceptable application which performs gracefully.”The pro-Mono crowd (some Novell and Microsoft employees included) would not be terribly happy about this because Tomboy is admittedly not as libre as Gnote. Jo Shields says that “[f]eatures CANNOT be ported back from Gnote – Gnote is GPLv3, and is only compatible with LGPL2 in one direction. I suspect this was 101% intentional.”
Irrespective of whether it’s intentional or not — and apparently it’s not even true — Gnote grew tremendously fast (even its resistors are stunned by how much was achieved in less than a month) and it's pending addition to Debian and Ubuntu. For those who want GNOME to stay independent from Mono, Gnote [1-6] is a project to support by spreading the word and asking distribution packagers to include it (either installed by default or added to the repositories). █ ____ [1] Project of the Day: GNote [2] Tomboy is Afraid of Gnote, Its Mono-free Sibling [3] Gnote Supports 6 More Languages, Does Not Support C# [4] The Role of Mono and Moonlight Revisited [5] Did Tomboy Learn from TomTom? Project Forked, Moves Away from Microsoft ‘Standards’ [6] Novell Partners Promote Silverlight, Zeitgeist at Risk of Mono(polists)
=> it's pending addition to Debian and Ubuntu | GNOME to stay independent from Mono | Project of the Day: GNote | Tomboy is Afraid of Gnote, Its Mono-free Sibling | Gnote Supports 6 More Languages, Does Not Support C# | The Role of Mono and Moonlight Revisited | Did Tomboy Learn from TomTom? Project Forked, Moves Away from Microsoft ‘Standards’ | Novell Partners Promote Silverlight, Zeitgeist at Risk of Mono(polists)
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