Mono relicensed under MIT - C# for UE4 can come back?

[kelfire (Kiệt Minh Khổng)]

Yeah Xamarin/Microsoft wanted to add some changes to the main UE4 version, but there are some legal. Xamarin has been talking about getting these legal cleared since September 2016. I has been 5-6 months and it look like it is still stuck :(. I’ll post a link of the post by de Icaza. I assume “integrated into the upstream UnrealEngine” meaning adding some changes from the Mono code to the mainstream UE4 version.

Hello,
I can explain, it is a bit complicated.

Mono for UE requires not only the pure glue code, but also, we had to take some C++ code from UE and reuse that from the binding. This means that the resulting code is covered by a combination of licenses, the MIT license from Mono, and the UE license. So the resulting code, at least in its current form requires some form of “Only users under the EpicGames agreement” can get the code.

We could resolve this relatively easily, and we can look into that – Mikayla, what would prevent us from doing this?

The most interesting thing for us is to get the code integrated into the upstream UnrealEngine. For this, we need to grant EpicGames the rights to redistribute our code and due to existing agreements between EpicGames and Microsoft, we need to make sure that the way that we release this abides by all previous agreements, or we need to amend those agreements.

This is what our lawyers have been working on.

Miguel.