[Mono-list] any comments out there about this article

[Brian Jepson]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Wesley Felter wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Sebastien Lambla wrote:
> 
> > About the license problem,
> >
> > it seems quite obvious that GPL propagation is not feasible for mono, as it
> > would contaminate software being run on top of it.
> 
> Kaffe is GPLed, and AFAIK it hasn't contaminated anything yet.
> 

Also, Microsoft helped fund some of the work on Kaffe.  That work brought
the Microsoft Java extensions to Kaffe, so that Visual J++ users would
always have a platform to run their code on, regardless of what happened
with the Java lawsuit.

Microsoft does not seem to have a problem with their customers running
non-GPLed bytecode on a GPLed VM.  In fact, they seem to be encouraging
it.

- Brian