Linked by snydeq on Mon 14th Sep 2009 21:43 UTC
Novell has announced MonoTouch 1.0, a commercial SDK kit that allows developers to build iPhone apps using Microsoft's .Net Framework instead of the Apple-designated C or Objective-C languages. The SDK leverages Novell's Mono runtime for running Windows apps on non-Windows systems, allowing developers to utilize code and libraries written for .Net and programming languages like C#.
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Member since:2005-07-08
To be honest everyone that contributes to Mono, knows that it can happen:
http://mono-project.com/FAQ:_Licensing
If you are contributing to an Open Source project, and don't care to read their license, it is your fault if then you found out that your code is being used in ways you don't agree.
Member since:2005-07-06
Sure, they've been telling it up front all the time.
My problem is when they start closing it up without doing a free version at all.
I dont ming a GPL program being released in two versions - a free and a closed source. Sort of like mysql or virtualbox. My problem comes from the fact hat they don't provide a free version at all.
They have the legal right to do so - but IMO they also have a moral right to release a free version.
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"We have the rights to redistribute Mono under commercial terms and that's what we're giving to users here," said Joseph Hill, product manager for Mono at Novell.
Lovely, so all those who spend a lot of time on making mono work just got their code used in a closed source environment. Thanks, but no thanks