Proposals for mono-basic and monodoc

[Horst H. von Brand]

Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 16:26 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > [...] Regardless of the OIN, if Microsoft folks help to add 

> > functionality to Mono, it will be tainted.  I certainly don't want to
> > look at any code that might be tainted.

> I may regret suggesting this; but if comes down to it - could Red Hat
> fork and maintain/enhance Mono from as it currently stands?

Is it really /that/ central? Any .NET users will have serious issues with
the applications themselves anyway, methinks.

>                                                             That way,
> any Microsoft-made contributions would not harm it or Fedora. 

Just looked at mono-core, it looks it is under every OSI-approved license
there is... if it was just GPL,if MSFT or the devil himself donates code,
the result can be distributed freely with no strange strings attached.

So it comes down to the exact licenses...
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