[Mono-docs-list] monodoc Licensing

Eric Butler eric at extremeboredom.net
Fri Jan 25 16:06:59 EST 2008


Fine with me too.
  - Eric

Ben Maurer wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> Long time, no talk. I hope you are doing well. MIT/X11 is fine for 
> anything I've written in monodoc.
> 
> -b
> 
> On Fri, 25 Jan 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...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> - Jon
>>
>>
>>
>>


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