Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Jul 2009 15:54 UTC, submitted by Brandon L
As you would have guessed, the Mono debate is long from over. Two weeks ago, Microsoft extended its legally binding and perpetual community promise to cover the C# and CLI ECMA standards, which was generally seen as a good thing for Linux-centric fans of the C# language as well as for the Mono project. The FSF has responded now, and it isn't too impressed with Microsoft's move.
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2005-08-12
Err, a few of those items mentioned are actually available under the GPL. Qt for instance has been available under the GPL for just under a decade, and just went LGPL. Java is mostly GPL now AFAIK, Firefox is available under the GPL.
And never has the FSF said you're not allowed to use proprietary software, or you're not allowed to create proprietary software. Just that you can't do it with GPL'd code.
Edited 2009-07-20 23:02 UTC