[Fwd: [DotGNU]A good warning?]

[John]

Sounds like something similar I once read on the SAMBA site? No/Yes...
still it's a good idea and it has my vote in theory.

The shared source part is especially important, but we'll need something
like:
> 
Include in the header of your code "I certify under penalty of perjury
and the laws of my applicaBle state, district, commonwealth, country, or
planet of legal residence that I have not (blah blah blah) viewed any
source code directly related to this coding that is not distributed
under the GPL or a recognized compatible license."
 
That's safest... some legal beagle correct me if I'm incorrect.

John Le'Brecage

Matthew Copeland wrote:

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> Special note
>
> If you have looked at Microsoft's implementation of .NET or their shared
> source code, you will not be able to contribute to Mono.
>
> Please, follow care when reading code
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> You know, I saw this on the ximian website for contributing to mono, and
> it could be very worthwhile to us to add something similar to our website,
> so that we don't get into any nasty situations with lawsuits from
> Microsoft.  We all konw how Microsoft tactics work when it comes to
> competitors.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Matthew M. Copeland