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Ximian to Change License for Mono

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the winds-of-change dept.

A Commentor writes: "According to news.com Ximian is changing the license to Mono from GPL to a variant of the XFree license. Apparently this is due to a partnership with Intel." Update: 01/28 15:03 GMT by T : There's a story at NewsForge as well, where RMS weighs in firsthand on the license choice.

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  1. I hate to say this, but by tulare · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    I need to waste a little karma. So here goes:
    1. All your code module licensing are belong to us!
    Whew.
    Actually, since they are changing the licensing for their modules only to the XFree86 license and not the entire Mono, I don't think we will see too much trouble. Besides, it's not like the X license is all that bad now, is it?
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  2. Given up on Ximian by xonker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've pretty much given up on Ximian. They seem to be focusing on staying two steps behind Microsoft (Evolution, Mono, Gnumeric...) rather than keeping up with Linux (their Red Carpet service is at least one version behind for SuSE, Mandrake, no version for Slackware).

    I'd really like to try Evolution, but it's a dependency nightmare from Hell to download package-by-package or from source and the Red Carpet service that's supposed to make life easy is one version behind both of the platforms that I have that I could use it on.

    Meanwhile, they're spending their time trying to copy Microsoft crap for Linux with no clear way to make money on it, but giving Microsoft and other proprietary companies ample leeway to steal parts of the code or to release proprietary extensions.

    Something's very wrong with this picture.

  3. /. moderators are getting stupider... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    What idiots mismoderated this "Insightful"?

    It's INFORMATIVE, dammit! Maybe even "Interesting", if you swing that way, but "Insightful"?

    Apparently some moderators wouldn't know "Insightful" if it bit them in the ass!

    /rant