Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 12th Feb 2009 08:05 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Novell's Miguel de Icaza has announced on his blog that Moonlight has hit the 1.0 milestone. Moonlight is the open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight technology, a framework similar to Adobe's Flash. Silverlight has already been used during the Olympic Games and President Obama's inauguration for streaming those events across the internet.
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That applies to Microsoft's codecs. Moonlight itself can be distributed (and redistributed) without problems.
If/when a user navigates to a website that needs the codecs (and hasn't been built against ffmpeg), Moonlight will ask the user if he or she would like to download/install Microsoft's codec blob (directly from Microsoft).
They cannot redistribute those codecs, but it doesn't matter because Moonlight will simply download/install them for the next user.