____/ Linonut on Monday 03 March 2008 16:46 : \____
> * Miguel de Icaza peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>>> What will be the terms for commercial usage of Mono?
>>
>> I refer you to our licensing page, or to the wikipedia for the gory
>> details.
>
> Thanks.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)#License
>
> Developers contributing source code to Mono upstream must agree to
> distribute their code to Novell under a license that allows Novell to
> relicense the code under other licensing terms. This practice is
> similar to copyright assignment agreements used in other free and
> open source software projects (used in many GNU projects and by
> MySQL), however, this method allows the developer to retain
> copyright of the original work while still preserving Novell's
> ability to commercially license Mono for specific customers that
> require different licensing terms than what is provided in general
> release versions (such as running Mono in embedded firmware
> environments).
>
> . . .
>
> This has been summed up by Richard Stallman[8]:
>
> Mono is a free implementation of Microsoft's language C#.
> Microsoft has declared itself our enemy and we know that
> Microsoft is getting patents on some features of C#. So I think
> it's dangerous to use C#, and it may be dangerous to use Mono.
> There's nothing wrong with Mono. Mono is a free
> implementation of a language that users use. It's good to provide
> free implementations. We should have free implementations of
> every language. But, depending on it is dangerous, and we better
> not do that.
>
> On November 2, 2006, Microsoft and Novell announced a joint agreement
> whereby Microsoft agreed to not sue Novell's customers for
> patent infringement. According to Mono project leader Miguel de
> Icaza, this agreement extends to Mono but only for Novell
> developers and customers.
Tes, got to have some competitive advantage, hey? ;-) You know, keep those
nasty Ubuntu feet on fire.
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