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All GPLed Code Removed From MonoDevelop

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the those-who-write-the-code-make-the-rules dept.

rysiek writes "A few days ago, Miguel de Icaza wrote on his blog that the whole of MonoDevelop is now 'free' of GPL-licensed code. 'MonoDevelop code is now LGPLv2 and MIT X11 licensed. We have removed all of the GPL code, allowing addins to use Apache, MS-PL code as well as allowing proprietary add-ins to be used with MonoDevelop (like RemObject's Oxygene).'"

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  1. Re:Does anyone really use it? by aztracker1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Honestly, I happen to like C# over Java. If you have to interact with native code, but want to use a managed language, it's really your best option. The semantics are similar enough to Java as it is. Also, if you are writing cross-platform code, without recompile, .Net/Mono is a much better option than Java is. Other than it was created at (the vile evil empire known as Microsoft), could you cite some examples why Python, Ruby, Perl or JavaScript would be a better language for development? I am unaware of any GUI toolkits that match the ones available for Ruby, Perl or JS, and Java doesn't match C#/.Net's native platform flexibility.

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