Microsoft appears to clarify Mono licensing

Jul 07, 2009, 04:11 (21 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Sam Varghese)

"But given that Microsoft often gives with one hand and then takes much more with the other, legal opinion is needed before a definite pronouncement is made.

""ECMA 334 specifies the form and establishes the interpretation of programs written in the C# programming language, while the ECMA 335 standard defines the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) in which applications written in multiple high-level languages can be executed in different system environments without the need to rewrite those applications to take into consideration the unique characteristics of those environments," Galli said in the statement."

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• Miguel: You, the man! - Open letter to Miguel de Icaza(Jul 06, 2009)
• Mono: An Infectious Disease : An Article by Chris Smart(Jun 04, 2009)
• First Moonlight 2.0 Preview is Out(May 05, 2009)
• Former ECMA Sec. Gen Challenges ISO/BRM Critics to Create a Better Process(Mar 18, 2008)
• Ecma's Top 10 Worst Responses to NB Comments(Feb 05, 2008)
• Correction regarding the "tomboy / mono in default installation" thingy(Jul 06, 2009)
• Are Contentious Debates Derailing FOSS?(Jul 06, 2009)
• Identifying and removing Microsoft patented ideas from Linux: A Patent A Day Project(Jul 06, 2009)
• Hands off the Gimp(Jul 04, 2009)
• Mono: Shielding the facts(Jul 02, 2009)
• Considerations on Patents that Read on Language Infrastructure(Jul 01, 2009)