Re: My Favorite soapbox : XML linkage (was Re: [DotGNU]Jabber-thon)

[Norbert Bollow]

James Michael DuPont <address@hidden> wrote:

> Miguel says they can run the gpl code in a separate
> server and publish the interface across to any user.
> 
> He writes here : 
> http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005846.html
> "MCS might be used though to implement this beast if
> we choose to, and in
> that case, we will probably package the compiler as a
> component that can
> run on its own AppDomain, allowing for the GPL code to
> be running side
> by side with proprietary code."
> 
> let me be provokative about this : 
> You dont need to use rpc and the network interfaces,
> you just need dotnet to get around the GPL.
> 
> How does the DotGnu team plan on handling this one?

The major components of DotGNU (that need to be protected from
that kind of situation) are not written in C#, or any other
language that can easily be compiled to run on the .NET runtime.

Greetings, Norbert.

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