[Mono-dev] ms .net source updated and license modified

[Stephen Shaw]

I'm curious. What does this actually mean for the mono project?

Cheers,
Stephen


On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Chris Ball <qhalid at gmail.com> wrote:

> Related, I believe:
>
>
> http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingTheNewRoslynpoweredNETFrameworkReferenceSource.aspx
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 25.02.2014, at 18:50, "\"Andrés G. Aragoneses\"" <knocte at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 25/02/14 18:11, theUser BL wrote:
> >> »Um die Arbeit mit dem Quellcode noch einfacher zu machen, hat Microsoft
> >> auch die Lizenzbestimmungen klarer gefasst. Denn bisher mussten
> >> beispielsweise die Entwickler von Open Source-Klonen aufpassen, dass sie
> >> nur Erkenntnisse aus dem Reverse Engineering verwenden und nicht aus
> >> dem Studium des originalen Quellcodes. Denn in vielen Fällen würde dann
> >> die Gefahr drohen, dass man sich verschiedener Rechteverletzungen
> >> schuldig macht. Die Microsoft Reference Source License wurde daher nun
> >> so angepasst, dass beispielsweise die Entwickler des Mono-Teams
> >> problemlos die .Net-Sourcen anschauen und das Framework dann unter Linux
> >> klonen können. «
> >
> > GoogleTranslate output is:
> >
> > "To make the work with the source code even easier, Microsoft has
> > also the license terms clarified. Because so far had
> > For example, the developers of open source clones careful that they
> >  only use insights from the reverse engineering and not from
> > the study of the original source code. Because in many cases would then
> > the danger threatening that one different in rights violations
> > guilty. The Microsoft Reference Source License was therefore now
> > adapted so that for example, the developer of the mono-teams
> > easily see the. Net sources and the framework then in Linux
> > can clone. "
> >
> > If this translation is (kind of) correct, it still is very confusing
> > because that license (MS-RSL [1]) is not opensource.
> >
> > [1]
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_source#Microsoft_Reference_Source_License_.28Ms-RSL.29
> >
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