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Subject:    Ximian Mono project to use X11 licence
From:       Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell () mail ! com>
Date:       2002-01-29 22:25:23
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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

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