[Mono-list] Dot_GNU PR Folks on Slashdot

[Weiqi Gao]

On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 04:14, Zaphod wrote:
> 
> I don't know ... I just read the FAQ ... and found this curious .. it is 
> not often that I see an OSS project say this explicitly in their FAQ ...

Two projects I can think of that have this arrangement are Cygwin and
Ghostscript.  Both are stellar Open Source projects.

The existence of an alternative closed source licensing arrangements is
not a problem as long as the open source version is active and up to
date.

> There are some projects that had people to think it was free and then later
> pushed a non-free release (Sourceforge ?) .. So I appreciate mono being 
> honest with their contributers .... 

I would start to worry if the free version of the project show signs of
abandonment.  But then again, a truly useful and intrinsically
sustainable open source project will live on even after the original
contributers leave the project.

Ximian licensing their portion of the Mono code with a different license
doesn't worry me a bit.

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Weiqi Gao
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