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		Mogzol on Aug 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine tea... I doubt it is due to legal concerns if Ubuntu, Fedora, and FreeBSD are all distributing their own builds.

kragen on Aug 28, 2024 | [–]

you could easily imagine fedora distributing their own build of software whose licensing fails to comply with the debian free software guidelines; bundling proprietary software used to be common in linux distributions in fact

k_roy on Aug 28, 2024 | [–]

"legal concerns" is not the same as philosophy differences.

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