On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 04:10:38AM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
They have no copyright,
trademark or trade secret claims that apply to Mono or DotGNU.
And on whose word does that statement depend? I haven't seen anybody I
trust assert that.
Copyright is fairly easy to demonstrate. The Mono authors claim to have
produced an independent implementation. Their developer policy states that
if you've ever looked at Microsoft's .NET implementation, you can _never_
work on Mono.
Trademark, doesn't really apply, since Mono and DotGNU have different
names.
Trade secret would also require a violation of the developer policy, but is
also counterindicated by the fairly friendly communications between
Microsoft .NET developers and the Mono developers.
None of the above are any different than any other large body of code where
Microsoft also has an implementation.
As far as patents:
<http://web.archive.org/web/20030424174805/http://mailserver.di.unipi.it/pipermail/dotnet-sscli/msg00218.html>
It would have been nice had they put this kind of declaration in the
standard itself.
Dave
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