The elusive, royalty-free patent licence for Mono

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 30, 2009 9:03 PM EDT
iTWire; By Sam Varghese
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How difficult or easy is it to obtain one of the much-touted "royalty-free, reasonable and non-discriminatory" licences for Microsoft patents that are part of a technology like Mono? Judging by the frequency with which references are made to such licences by those who back Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza's bid to create an open source clone of Microsoft's .NET development environment, it's surprising that no-one has ever ventured to test this claim.

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