All GPLed Code Removed From MonoDevelop

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).'"

Comments

Re:Now for business use

[Runaway1956]

"You'd be a fool to make avoiding the GPL some sort of mandate."

Well - there is no shortage of fools in the world. Off topic, but look at Houston. Little more than 1 in 10 voters bothered to vote. Apparently there were no issues that anyone cared enough to vote about, that either candidate bothered to address. Utter apathy, really. But - the winner has this supposed "mandate" to do all kinds of stuff. Among other things, she's gay, so she has a mandate to make Houston gay. Yeah, I know - I already mentioned that I'm off topic. But, fools and mandates go together.

Re:Does anyone really use it?

[aztracker1]

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.