Proposals for mono-basic and monodoc

[Rahul Sundaram]

Horst H. von Brand wrote:

> Just looked at mono-core, it looks it is under every OSI-approved license
> there is... if it was just GPL,if MSFT or the devil himself donates code,
> the result can be distributed freely with no strange strings attached.
> 
> So it comes down to the exact licenses...

Not exactly. You can very well contribute code that is shackled by 
patents under many Free software and open source licenses which has no 
patent provisions in them such as the BSD or MIT license which 
significant parts of Mono is licensed under. If Novell contributes any 
such code under these licenses they would currently be shielded from any 
patent infringement claims from Microsoft for the term of the Microsoft 
<-> Novell agreement but anyone else cannot.

Rahul