Intel and HP partner with Ximian in Mono Project

[Rod Gammon]

Warren-

Got any data on "changed the license from GPL to..." stipulations?  Also,
what about owners of GPL'd stuff, could one distribute GPL while making own
amendments closed source?  How long does the license last?  Or is just new
stuff going to be xfree license?

BTW, do you actually submit all this stuff (a great resource!) or do you
have a team of bots and winged (or fezzed) monkeys do the bulk of it?
Because you sure do produce a lot!

aloha-
rod g

-----Original Message-----
From: Warren Togami [mailto:warren at togami.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:20 PM
To: Linux & Unix Advocates & Users
Subject: [luau] Intel and HP partner with Ximian in Mono Project


http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html

Ximian has changed the license from the GPL to the XFree86-style license,
very similar the BSD license.  This type of license is also open source,
while being more acceptable to businessses because they are allowed to take
the source code and make closed source proprietary products.

On the surface this may seem bad, but this means that Intel and HP will now
contribute to the Mono project.  Mono is still open source, and it will
approach completion much sooner with big corporate backing.



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