Novell kindly respons to questions about Mono License

[eddie]

We use three open source licenses:

* The C# compiler is dual-licensed under the MIT/X11 license and
the
GNU General Public License
(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.html) (GPL).

* The tools are released under the terms of the GNU General Public
License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.html) (GPL).

* The runtime libraries are under the GNU Library GPL 2.0
(http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/library.html#TOC1) (LGPL 2.0).

* The class libraries are released under the terms of the MIT X11
(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html) license.

You can find more details regarding Mono's licenses on our License page:
http://mono-project.com/License

Hope that helps

Joseph Hill
Product Manager for Mono


> Exactly which license is mono under. where can I get the black and white of the license with novell's stating that it is infact the mono license?

[Gomer_X]

I think people are less concerned about licensing than they are about potential patent problems. Mono is definitely open source, but that doesn't mean Microsoft can't find some way to claim patent infringement.

If that happens, there are problems.

I'm not claiming I believe all that, but that's the general argument people make against Mono. There's also the fact that using it gets people to use programming languages controlled by Microsoft.

[eddie]

I agree that probably that is not all the writing on the wall, but it is good to at least have something in writing that can least keep something for them to trip over in case ms tries it's usual methods. I do have more questions for them about specifically the parts based on basic and vb..