http://www.mono-project.com/Licensing
Mono engine was pure GPL and Class libraries was LGPL at one point. These days the Mono engine is hybred MIT & GPL and the class libraries is MIT. This trend is something to be worried about. MIT does not provide any patent protection. Even that items like Tomboy are LGPL in there code they may not breach any patents. The important thing to audit is the classes Tomboy depends on to operate. I suspect lot of .net applications will fail inspection. In fact the head of Microsoft has said That only Novell and other people who have signed agreements is protected. So all the class libraries of mono need to move to the restricted section. Hopefully this will push the .Net wanting people to get clarification of the patent status. There is a risk that Novell know something we don't and that is the reason why mono engine has moved to hybred. MIT form still can be shipped as source even with a patent requirement to use. Answer to this patent status need to be got or it not trusted. Warning also needs to be place on the main mono engine without patent status cleared will have to be moved as well. Peter Dolding -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
