GPL and .NET was Re: [sword-devel] UI for Windows Question...

Daniel Glassey sword-devel@crosswire.org
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:39:15 -0000


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plenty of GPL'd .NET there ;)
d

On 12 Mar 2003 at 2:11, Daniel Russell sent forth the message:

> 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.