Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 22:25:23 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Ximian Mono project to use X11 licence Message-ID: <20020129222523.C293@localhost>
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Hi all, Thought this might be of interest to the FreeBSD crowd, but not quite -advocacy material: http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html Short summary: The Ximian Mono project (an open-source version of the .NET platform) has dropped the GPL from their class libraries in favour of the (quite BSD-like) X11 licence. Reading between the lines, it appears this was due to some pressure from the commercial interests in the project, namely Intel and HP. Makes a nice change to see some big names *not* following the GLP dogma... Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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