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Re:Ć Programming Language - Compile C# subset to C, Java, C#... by danabramov on Sunday June 16, 2013 @09:45AM (#5888404)
I think he means commercial use in closed-source projects. So it's not v2 vs v3, but GPL vs Apache or MIT.
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Re:Ć Programming Language - Compile C# subset to C, Java, C#... by profquail on Sunday June 16, 2013 @09:55AM (#5888441)
Yes, that's what I meant.

Most -- nearly all -- major open-source projects written in C# (or other .NET languages) are permissively licensed. Yes, that means people could just grab the code and use it in their own closed-source projects without giving back; but, as far as I've seen, most devs are happy to contribute back to the projects they use in whatever way they can.

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Re:Ć Programming Language - Compile C# subset to C, Java, C#... by rbehrends on Sunday June 16, 2013 @12:48PM (#5888998)
It's not just commercial use. Non-permissive open source licenses are also frequently incompatible with one another [1].

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibl...

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