On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 15:21:40 +0530, "SeekingGyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> > The main problem at the moment is that the Mono guys (read Novell) doesn't
> > want to have Mono under a
> > Free Software license and they also recently changed their library
> > licensing from LGPL to MIT's X11 license to make it more unrestrictive.
> > They also plan to sell Mono to companies under proprietary licenses if
>
> is there anything wrong about that ? should all software be only GPL /
> LGPL ? Is MIT X11 non free software like other commercial license. is
> MIT license taking away your code from you without your consent ?
Berkeley got entangled in several lawsuites many times in past. While
all the Unix vendors enjoyed BSD's Network Release and included it in
their proprietary unix distributions. GPL atleast ensures that free
software remains free.
-Anurag
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