[MonoDevelop] Licensing concerns.

[Christoph Wille]

At 12:19 AM 7/14/2004, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > I see one problem, though: you are using our core. Everything is built on
> > top of that. So... how can anyone write non-GPL code on top of the 
> GPL-ed core?
>
>There are many ways, for example, consider the new GUI widgetry being
>done for MonoDevelop: written from scratch for use mostly with Gtk#.
>
>The widgetry can be used independently of MonoDevelop, so its only when
>shipped with MonoDevelop that it becomes GPL, but there should be no
>reason why the Dock has to be GPL.

This specific use case I have never been questioning - code that is 
entirely independent of MD / #develop can be any license the programmer 
chooses it to be. Like generic widgets. I'm only challenging tightly 
integrated code, like addins of any kind - which btw make up most of the code.

Chris