Re: [DotGNU]Ximian shows its stripes at last

[Nicholas Hynes]

Sorry for sideboard surfing into this conversation half-way...

If Ximian do decide to re-license a number of 'their' products, where does
that leave the existing code base.

Could someone else pick up the code base & keep developing it?

BTW does anyone know the legal status of the desktop apps & Bonobo?


- Nick.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rhys Weatherley" <address@hidden>

> Finally, confirmation from Miguel that Ximian is indeed
> looking to make proprietry versions of Mono sometime in
> the future:
>
> http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002510.html
>
> An excerpt:
>
> > Ximian owns the whole copyright to:
> >
> >        The Mono C# compiler.
> >        The runtime engine.
> >


>
> i.e. they own the entire source to the two most important
> components, and want all contributors to those components
> to assign their code to Ximian, so they can take those
> contributions private anytime they choose.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rhys.
>