Fedora meeting Mono Half-Way

Dan Hollis goemon at anime.net
Thu Dec 15 19:49:09 UTC 2005


On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Peter Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 13:43 +0000, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
>> 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?
> GPL does not address patents.

Yes it does, to a small extent.
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

GPL 3 will be even more explicit and restrictive regarding patents (and 
drm).

-Dan




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