Comments

• bob

  2008-11-02 09:02:08

  I thought that Mono Moonlight binary and source code is licensed under the Lesser GNU General Public License version 2. Does this mean Moonlight is not open source?

• freewill

  2008-11-02 11:13:56

  Of course Moonlight is open-source!

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-11-02 11:34:15

  Moonlight, however, is not Silverlight

• Dan O'Brian

  2008-11-02 12:59:13

  Actually, Moonlight is Silverlight. It is the official Silverlight implementation for Linux, as stated by Microsoft.

• vincent

  2008-11-03 10:19:38

  Miguel de Icaza presents the Mono project : http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC54/
  
  He presented the tool Unity3D which allow multiplateform games.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-11-03 10:56:31

  I'd love to watch it, but it requires Mono. Microsoft still ignores my requests for a Mono patent licence and I shall soon start contacting Microsoft employees personally.

• vincent

  2008-11-03 22:41:25

  Miguel de Icaza's blog : http://tirania.org/blog/
  
  What is your opinions on Mono Mr. Schestowitz ?

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-11-03 22:50:57

  Here are some recent posts on the subject.

• Dan O'Brian

  2008-11-04 01:25:44

  You can grab the wmv and convert it to ogg and then watch it ;-)
  
  http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/pdc08/WMV-HQ/PC54.wmv
  
  Apparently there's a lot of interest in Mono from the gaming industry and so Mono has now gained SIMD support (which neither Java nor Microsoft's .NET have) because some gaming studios are starting to write their console/pc games fully in C#.
  
  Very interesting stuff. Apparently Microsoft liked Miguel's C# shell so much that they've decided to implement it in .NET for .NET 5.0 due out in 2012.
  
  So I guess you could say Microsoft is now playing catch-up to Mono ;-)

• Dan O'Brian

  2008-11-04 01:32:21

  I should add that rumors are that Miguel's talk was so widely attended that it overflowed into a third room, which no other presentation at the conference did.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-11-04 01:58:29

  You must be proud of your idol.

• vincent

  2008-11-04 08:22:32

  Why the Moonlight's license is the GNU LGPL v2 and not the GNU LGPL v3 ?
  
  Because of Mono's patents ?

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-11-04 08:35:30

  Moonlight requires Mono.
  
  http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_Licensing
  
  

  What license or licenses are you using for the Mono Project?
  
  We use three open source licenses:
  
  * The C# compiler is dual-licensed under the MIT/X11 license and the GNU General Public License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.html) (GPL).
  
  * The tools are released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.html) (GPL).
  
  * The runtime libraries are under the GNU Library GPL 2.0 (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/library.html#TOC1) (LGPL 2.0).
  
  * The class libraries are released under the terms of the MIT X11 (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html) license.

  
  
  You can find past discussions of this.

• vincent

  2008-11-04 08:48:19

  I thought that the runtime libraries of Mono were under the GNU LGPL 2.0 or later.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-11-04 08:53:26

  There have been some speculations about the choice of licences before. There's also this comment we received hours ago (I don't believe it's true):
  
  "I just heard that Novell is designing the OS for Windows 7. I live in Provo Utah and heard it from an insider that Novell is designing it w/ a flavor of Linux. I guess that M$ even admits that NT is loaded w/ security and stability issues."
  
  http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/01/novl-pressures-scox/#comment-32336