Hello, > > Look. The argument FC have put up is over the patents MS hold which Mono > > relies upon. Due to those patents (and again, according to the FC crew), > > distribution under the GPL is not allowed. I'm not crying wolf at all > > either. > > Their argument seems to be this: according to GPL section 7, if you know > your product potentially infringes on someone's patents, you cannot > distribute the program.*
We should stop quoting the GPL, because its only used for a tiny piece of code in Mono. From the 5 million lines of code that Mono contains, only about 80k lines of Mono are covered under the GPL. Those are the compilers and a few command line tools. And I very much doubt that there is a valid patent of any kind on the C# compiler, if that is the case, then they might as well stop distributing gcc ;-) Miguel. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
