GPL and .NET was Re: [sword-devel] UI for Windows Question...

Jason Turner sword-devel@crosswire.org
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:41:04 -0700


Also the great project of SharpDevelop (gpl'd ide for .net written in .net)

On Wednesday 12 March 2003 03:39 am, Daniel Glassey wrote:
> www.go-mono.org
>
> plenty of GPL'd .NET there ;)
> d
>
> On 12 Mar 2003 at 2:11, Daniel Russell sent forth the message:
> > Jason Turner wrote:
> > >Since I cannot use the Sword API as it stands,
> > >I was considering reimplementing a subset of it in .NET, and then
> > > building the UI on top of that. Of course releasing the whole thing
> > > under the GPL.
> >
> > I have a technical question: can .NET and GPL be mixed???? Is'nt
> > Microsoft becoming violently evil in their licensing schemes? i am
> > almost certain that there is something in the licenses of .NET
> > technologies that will prohibit you from GPLing anything that has .NET
> > in it. M$ loathes Free software.
>
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