Re: [ILUG-BOM] Mono Session on 19th Dec

Bhaskar Ghose thegnuer@yahoo.de writes:

must also protect our rights at the same time. A program released under the MIT license can be sublicensed into any proprietary license and thus put inside non-free softwares too. This is not what ideally a free software should allow. A

Well, technically the MIT license is the most Free license. It provides the maximum freedom to the user and does not bother about protecting the rights of the programmer. However, it is still a Free Software License though it is not a Copyleft compatible.

In the case of Mono, maybe the MIT License is used to please their Non-Free software production associates. This attitude will not help the community by the least.