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		uvTwitch on April 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mono and Roslyn Mono's licensing decision actually makes sense now; hampering the free version of Mono with the contagious GPL license effectively means that you're required to pay if you want to use their software in a commercial fashion. Very disappointing that Unity haven't upgraded yet, hopefully they'll do so soon.

profquail on April 10, 2014 [–]

The Mono runtime is LGPL (not GPL), and most (if not all) of the class libraries are MIT/X11-licensed.

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