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> not only do they refuse, they are getting rid of all GPLv2 code in favor of BSD code. This claim is completely fictitious. We started an effort a few years
by jstedfast 15y ago
> not only do they refuse, they are getting rid of all GPLv2 code in favor of BSD code.
This claim is completely fictitious.
We started an effort a few years ago to migrate MonoDevelop code to LGPL and MIT/X11 (not BSD) from GPL. Our reason for doing so was to make it possible for third parties to write extensions (addins) to MonoDevelop and license it under whatever license they wanted, i.e. we did not want to force them to have to develop their addins and license them under GPL if they didn't want to.
It was not some big conspiracy to prepare for some Microsoft takeover or anything.