[MonoDevelop] Licensing concerns.

[Christoph Wille]

We've decided to take this to the FSF, to get an independent and especially 
a professional clarification on this matter. I'm sure that everyone here 
agrees on the authority of the FSF in OS licensing issues.

Chris
Senior Project Wrangler, #develop

At 09:49 PM 7/14/2004, Todd Berman wrote:
>To bring this to an eventually conclusion I hope, the following is what
>I have decided.
>
>My personal contributions where applicable in the past and in the future
>are licensed under the MIT X11 license. This is completely acceptable
>and does not violate the GPL in any way, as this code will be available
>under the terms of the GPL (note, under the *terms* of the GPL, not
>under the GPL).
>
>Right now, we will not be accepting any future contributions to
>MonoDevelop that are not under the MIT X11 license. A decision will be
>made in the near future if copyright assignment and/or relicensing of
>past contributions is required.
>
>--Todd
>
>PS - My apologies to those who got this twice, just mismanaging my email 
>client, as usual. If you reply, please reply to this message.