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Open source project becomes a closed shop

Not that open source then...

By Joey Gardiner

Published: 28 January 2002 17:58 GMT

Mono, the open source project run by developer guru Miguel D'Icaza to emulate Microsoft's .NET Framework for the open source world, is turning proprietary itself.

The project was announced in the middle of last year to take advantage of the new innovations coming out of Microsoft around .NET, including the development language C#, and port them on to open platforms.

However, the project said it has been forced to change its licence to be less open, in order to accept contributions from the likes of Intel, which wanted to look after its intellectual property.

Mono has moved from the General Public Licence (GPL) - the licence that ensures software like Linux stays public - on to the less open MIT X11 licence.

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