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Onyx Relicensed

6th April 2003

Ed Swindelles has relicensed his Onyx RSS Parser under the MIT License, meaning it can now be used without risk for building commercial software. I haven’t decided which license to place HttpClient under, but that one looks like a pretty good bet. I’ll work it out in the morning.

Posted 6th April 2003 at 11:25 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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