[Mono-docs-list] monodoc Licensing

Joshua Tauberer jit at occams.info
Fri Jan 25 14:31:02 EST 2008


Jonathan Pryor wrote:
> Joshua et al,
> 
> You wrote and contributed to the monodoc module & many related
> utilities, such as monodocer, monodocs2html, etc., in addition to
> monodoc/engine and related documentation providers.
> 
> The monodoc module currently claims to be under the GPL, as does
> `monodocer --version` and monodocs2html.
> 
> How would you feel about relicensing these contributions under MIT/X11?
> 
> No major reason, aside from an eventual simplification of Mono's
> licensing policy from GPL/LGPL/MIT-X11 to LGPL/MIT-X11, and I don't see
> much reason to prevent non-GPL-compliant reuse of these libraries and
> apps...

Hey, Jon.

I'm fine with anything, and simplification is my middle name (or, at 
least, the point of my domain name). You can consider any of my 
contributions to monodoc in the public domain.

Best,

-- 
- Josh Tauberer

http://razor.occams.info

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