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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. Re:Instance that hurt BSD: Microsoft? by hughk · · Score: 3, Redundant
    I fail to see a single incidence the BSD code modified and closed the has hurt the BSD community.

    Well if we talk about software being taken from BSD, used, and the source dissappears for ever, there is probably no better example than Microsoft. Their network stack owes a lot to BSD, but has any of it been passed back? No.

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