[Cocoa-sharp] license

Jesse Jones jesjones at mindspring.com
Tue Jul 1 01:59:13 EDT 2008


On Jun 29, 2008, at 7:47 PM, Geoff Norton wrote:

> Jesse,
>
> On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 19:32 -0700, Jesse Jones wrote:
>> On Jun 28, 2008, at 8:18 PM, osx wrote:
>>
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I'm evaluating cocoa-sharp for a commercial project.
>>
>> You may also want to look at objc3-sharp and cocoa3-sharp (<http://code.google.com/p/objc3-sharp/
>>> and <http://code.google.com/p/cocoa3-sharp/>) which are under the
>> MIT license. Also Monobjc (<http://www.monobjc.net/> which is under
>> the LGPL v2.1 license.
>>
>
> Did I publish cocoa2-sharp and objc2-sharp under a MIT/X11 license
> anywhere publically?  Your works are obviously derivative works of  
> mine
> and before granting license permission to people frankly even  
> contacting
> me would be the smallest of courtesy's.

Well, I was certainly inspired by objc2-sharp, but I don't think it's  
fair to call it a derivative work. It doesn't use any of the code from  
objc2-sharp and the design is completely different. I  also emailed  
you copies of the source twice before I did a public release.

  -- Jesse


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