From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 29 14:25:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (mta06-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C12D37B402 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:25:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([62.253.153.60]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020129222531.IRVV7000.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com> for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 22:25:31 +0000 Received: from tuatara.goatsucker.org (tuatara.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.6]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0TMPTn44425 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 22:25:29 GMT (envelope-from scott@tuatara.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.goatsucker.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0TMPNG04404 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 22:25:23 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 22:25:23 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Ximian Mono project to use X11 licence Message-ID: <20020129222523.C293@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-RC i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, Thought this might be of interest to the FreeBSD crowd, but not quite -advocacy material: http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html Short summary: The Ximian Mono project (an open-source version of the .NET platform) has dropped the GPL from their class libraries in favour of the (quite BSD-like) X11 licence. Reading between the lines, it appears this was due to some pressure from the commercial interests in the project, namely Intel and HP. Makes a nice change to see some big names *not* following the GLP dogma... Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message