Moonlight patent convenant is highly unclear

Bug #386013 reported by TAC one
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Bug Description

Moonlight is currently on the forbidden items list of Fedora.
[ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems#Moonlight ]

There are serious concerns about Moonlight, due to Microsoft and Novell's public statements around its inclusion in their "covenant". In addition to that Groklaw has posted a FAQ from Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) on the issues with this patent "covenant". Accordingly, this technology (with, or without codecs), is considered too risky, and is not acceptable for inclusion in Fedora.

Also refer:
http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/moonlight.mspx
http://blogs.cnet.com/5530-13505_1-0-10.html?forumID=166&messageID=2490312&threadID=228078

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