Re: Mono and GNOME. The long reply.

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

That can't happen.  Period.  You'd have to rewrite the code from
scratch; you'd never get the agreement from all the contributers.

I started switching a project of mine from the overly restrictive GPL to
the BSD license some weeks ago, and am *still* hunting down/rewriting
code from a contributor I can't contact to get relicensing permission
from.

Like I said in another thread; Perl is not GPL, but there are Perl
bindings for GNOME.  This didn't force GNOME to change it's license(s).

On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 05:09, Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 07:06, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> You forgot about the change of license. I think a lot of
> people are concerned about GNOME's license being changed
> from GPL, if that would be the case.
> > * Richard Stallman
> > 
> > 	I am not sure what people told Richard Stallman about my
> >     plans.  Given the confusion surrounding .NET, it is very possible
> >     that people were asking `Miguel wants to depend on Passport' or
> >     something just as bad as that.
> > 
> > 	My only intention is to write applications using the CLI as a
> >     development platform, which is really not very exciting for a news
> >     paper to report: "Programmer to use new compiler, new garbage
> >     collector, news at 11".
> > 
> > 	Really, programmer's lives are boring, I wish my life would be
> >     as exciting as other people's life appear to be.  
> > 	
> > * Further debate.
> > 
> > 	I have just scratched the surface in this email, I do like a
> >     lot the technology behind the .NET Framework as you might have
> >     noticed from the interviews, no secret there.  I can go on for
> >     hours, but I have to set a limit to this email.
> > 
> > 	I hope this explanation will get us through, feel free to
> >     e-mail me if you believe I have missed something or if you are
> >     interested in contributing to make this vision happen.
> > 
> > PS:
> > 
> > 	I would like to thank Nat Friedman for providing moral,
> >     technical support all these years and his unconditional
> >     friendship.  It has been a fun adventure.  
> > 
> > 	Without Nat I would probably have gone crazy by now.   
> > 
> > PS2:
> > 
> > 	I kind of got sentimental after reading all the nice e-mail on
> >     the GNOME lists. After all, writing software alone is not that
> >     interesting, the most interesting part is interacting with other
> >     developers, and watching how community projects grow.
> > 
> > 	I would like to thank all the people I have worked over the
> >     years: every GNOME developer past and present, every Mono
> >     developer past and present and all my friends at Ximian who have
> >     created a great place to work.  
> > 
> > 	This community is great, and I have loved working with an
> >     increasing number of people as free software becomes more
> >     popular.   I know sometimes I have been unreasonable, but I am
> >     trying to learn from my mistakes.  Am just too good at being 
> >     mistaken.
> > 
> > Miguel.
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