Re: Gnome to be based on .NET?

["Paul Cooper" <pgc ucecom com>]

On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 22:52, Crispin Wellington wrote:
[snip]
> > How is he doing that?  Neither Mono nor GNOME are, or are going to be,
> > closed source.
> 
> open source != Free
> 
> >  X11 license is just as (well, heck, more) free as the
> > GPL/LGPL GNOME uses now.
> 
> I disagree emphatically.
> 
> MIT/X
> -----
> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
> copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
> "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
> without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
> distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
> permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
> the following conditions:
> 
> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
> in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. 
> -----
> 
> Where is the garuntee of Openness? I take your MIT/X licenced code,
> modify it substantially, close it up and sell/sublicence it. No source
> code. Your not allowed to see *my* changes.
> 
> Freedom to be enslaved is no freedom at all.
> 
> MIT/X cant even be construed as more 'free' as in price.
[snip]

If you don't like the MIT/X license how are you using gnome - unless you
have some GPL XFree server that you're not telling us about.

Paul

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