All GPLed Code Removed from MonoDevelop

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Submission + - All GPLed Code Removed from MonoDevelop (boycottnovell.com)

Submitted by rysiek on Thursday December 24, 2009 @07:29AM

rysiek writes: A few days ago, Miguel de Icaza wrote on his blog that the whole MonoDevelop is now "free" of GPL-licensed code. "MonoDevelop code is now LGPLv2 and MIT X11 licensed. We have removed all of the GPL code, allowing addins to use Apache, MS-PL code as well as allowing proprietary add-ins to be used with MonoDevelop (like RemObject;s Oxygene)." A move that may be seen as quite controversial.

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