[sword-devel] UI for Windows Question...

Daniel Russell sword-devel@crosswire.org
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 02:11:24 -0800


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.