[ Thanks to Mike
Johnson for this link. ]
“Letter to the Register
Your article about me, GNOME and .Net was inaccurate starting
from the title. Those quotations which are accurate are taken out
of context, leading to total misunderstanding. Here is what really
took place.A person in the audience asked me what I thought about Miguel’s
changing the license of GNOME to the X11 license. Such a change for
GNOME has not occurred and is not planned, since it would go
against GNU Project policies. But Ximian did make such a license
change for Mono, which is not a GNU package. So I figured the
questioner had read the Mono license change announcement and then
misremembered it as referring to GNOME. I said so, but I tried not
to be harsh about it.”