Mono was always designed to be dual-licensed, because we needed a way of monetizing the investment. Because of this, the LGPL and GPL portions of the code requ

Mono was always designed to be dual-licensed, because we needed a way of monetizing the investment. Because of this, the LGPL and GPL portions of the code required either copyright assignments, relicensing rights, or the contribution to be made under the MIT license. This is how we built a business that allowed us to dual license the runtime for many years.