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Mono was not started by Novell. Miguel originally worked on his own with volunteers on a purely open source project. Miguel later pulled the mono dev team into
by ChicagoDave 11y ago
Mono was not started by Novell. Miguel originally worked on his own with volunteers on a purely open source project. Miguel later pulled the mono dev team into Novell and started a commercial development side with SuseLinux. When that partnership was desolved, Novell gave everything to Miguel and he created Xamarin.
- joeshaw 11y agoMono was started by Miguel at Ximian, and most of the Mono code was owned by Ximian. Ximian was bought by Novell and with it, all the Ximian-owned Mono code. (I don't remember if a CLA was required before or after Novell bought Ximian.) The Novell-owned IP was either sold or licensed to Xamarin later.
- migueldeicaza 11y agoJoe is correct, the code was always owned by Ximian. And we did require copyright assignment or relicensing rights from the start to support a dual-licensing business. It was the One Blessed Business Model endorsed by Richard Stallman at the time.