[Mono-list] the run-time system and the GPL

Miguel de Icaza miguel@ximian.com
11 Jul 2001 18:34:35 -0400


> It is Ok to license the run-time system (the virtual
> machine, the jit) under the GPL, and that will not
> impact the program being interpreted by the run-time
> system (like Java byte code on top of a Java VM).

I think we will need something more lax, to allow people to
dynamically load the runtime at any point (ie, you might want to call
a Mono component from your C application, and do all this in proc)