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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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.
That is exactly what they are doing. There is nothing magical about the "commercial" version of Mono included in MonoTouch except it does not come with the "no static linking" clause of the LGPL. It is the exact same code.
Mono's .Net classes are exactly the same as well, and are still MIT. (No special licensing required.)
The part that is proprietary is the CocoaTouch libraries which were developed solely by Novell and have never been open source.
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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.