Mono and Free Softwares

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alimiracle
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Welcome
Mono Is it free??
I found some articles to rms warns from mono
There distributions do not contain The repositorys mono
Such as Fedora

But I found it in trisquel repositorys
What is the problem with mono

andrew
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Joined: 04/19/2012

> Mono Is it free??

From a copyright perspective, yes. From a software patent perspective,
it could be hard to tell, especially for people in the U.S.

Andrew

jxself
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Joined: 09/13/2010

Please spend some time and listen to this discussion. Karen and Bradley do a very good job of going over the entire thing:
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/podcast/2009/jul/07/0x11/