[Mono-devel-list] (Il)legal code check-ins

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> Testing how a progam works in different conditions is OK. The code in
> the MS.net implementation is copyrighted. So, the only restriction is
> that you may not copy the *TEXT* of the code (or disassembled code).
> Legally, it is ok to look at disassembled code, however we stay away
> from it for two reasons: first, it restricts the creativity in our
> implementation, secondly by not looking at the code we prevent the
> argument that we are infact copying code.

In Mono it is *never* OK to look at disassembled code.

If you want to get your code into Mono, you should not disassemble a
third-party chunk of code.

Miguel.