Fedora meeting Mono Half-Way

[Rahul Sundaram]

Paul F. Johnson wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 14:10 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
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>>>Unlike over mp3 and mpeg, I actually agree with Red Hat over this. It's
>>>all well and good SuSE doing Mono (after all, it is their product), if
>>>they get hammered by MS, they lose and we continue.
>>>      
>>>
>>well .. remember novell and msft had a big settlement previously... do
>>you really think "mono" hadn't come up in those discussions??
>>(this is of course pure speculation on my side, but I'd really not be
>>surprised if MSFT gave Novell and exclusive license to mono stuff as
>>part of that settlement)
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>Given that Mono is GPL, I doubt that MS would ever agree to anything
>like that. Doesn't an exclusive licence negate the GPL anyway?
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Check the license. Its a mixture of MIT, LGPL and GPL

regards
Rahul