Fedora meeting Mono Half-Way

[Paul F. Johnson]

Hi,

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 14:10 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > Unlike over mp3 and mpeg, I actually agree with Red Hat over this. It's
> > all well and good SuSE doing Mono (after all, it is their product), if
> > they get hammered by MS, they lose and we continue.
> 
> well .. remember novell and msft had a big settlement previously... do
> you really think "mono" hadn't come up in those discussions??
> (this is of course pure speculation on my side, but I'd really not be
> surprised if MSFT gave Novell and exclusive license to mono stuff as
> part of that settlement)

Given that Mono is GPL, I doubt that MS would ever agree to anything
like that. Doesn't an exclusive licence negate the GPL anyway?

TTFN

Paul

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