>I don't know how they could have licensing issues. They based Mono on the ECMA standard for C#. Novell has also been working closely with Microsoft to develop Moonlight. Do you have links?
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>>A quick poke around the internet brings up licensing issues with Microsoft. Is this something that has a final resolution or is this still an issue?

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)

see the section on Mono and Microsoft’s patents