Re: [DotGNU]Open Source's Dot-Net Less Open

[Norbert Bollow]

> What statement are you folks refering to?  I can't
> fins the previous messages.

The statement was something like Intel and HP being able to
contribute to the Mono C# class libs only after the license of
those libs was changed to a non-copyleft license.

(This was a response to a dicussion from long ago.)

Greetings, Norbert.
> 
> --- Seth Johnson
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > I think the likelihood is much more to do with
> > content
> > control schemes, that Mono probably doesn't have
> > wind of
> > yet.
> > 
> > Seth Johnson
> > 
> > Norbert Bollow wrote:
> > > 
> > > The only explanation for this statement which I
> > can see is
> > > that the corporations in question are afraid of
> > the possibility
> > > of some kind of retaliation from Microsoft against
> > companies
> > > which contribute to the Mono libraries under GPL. 
> > If the
> > > library is not copylefted anymore, then maybe
> > Microsoft does
> > > not see it as a threat anymore, and the
> > managements of those
> > > corporations would not be concerned about the
> > possibility of
> > > retaliation from Microsoft.  This would clearly
> > make the
> > > decision to contribute easier.
> > 
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