Just that Mono implements more than that; surely System.Windows.Forms ist not part of the ECMA spec? What about Moonlight? It would be a very wise step to separate the ECMA and non-ECMA parts in the Mono upstream so that if hard comes to harder, it can be easily "removed" from the Mono distribution. <div class="gmail_quote">2008/6/10 Christopher James Halse Rogers <<a href="mailto:chalserogers@gmail.com">chalserogers@gmail.com</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 19:54 +0200, Milosz Derezynski wrote: > Sorry for dropping in. > > Has there been any mention of Microsoft that they will never, ever sue > anyone who uses Mono nor the Mono developers themselves, or is this > all under the Novell/Microsoft convenant? If they never made such a > statement, on what else than pure hope that they will never litigate > can something like Mono be built? > </div>Yes. All the EMCA-standardised parts of the CLI are available under royalty-free non-descriminatory terms. Link: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030424174805/http://mailserver.di.unipi.it/pipermail/dotnet-sscli/msg00218.html" target="_blank">http://web.archive.org/web/20030424174805/http://mailserver.di.unipi.it/pipermail/dotnet-sscli/msg00218.html</a> -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </blockquote></div>