[Mono-dev] .NET API documentation

[Miguel de Icaza]

They exact license is this one:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Miguel


On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Rafael Teixeira <monoman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wonderful Miguel.
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> Just an small question: I saw in the documentation committed this kind of
> element sprinkled all around:
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>       <attribution license="cc4" from="Microsoft" modified="false" />
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> That seems to indicate that it is licensed with an unmodified version 4 Creative Commons license, but it is not clear which of the additional constraints like NonCommercial, ShareAlike, and more importantly, NoDerivatives are attached as we are interested in starting an effort to produce a translation to Brazilian Portuguese, inside the MonoBrasil community, and we are not sure if we can legally do it.
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> I could not find any post by MS stating the licensing choice.
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> If the license allows the translation effort, I think you may prefer for it to be built standalone, on a separate repo, mirroring the mono/mcs/class tree, empty but for the documentation nodes, to make it buildable into some addin fashion to MonoDevelop/XS, and to allow MS to repackage it for use in VS.
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> Hopefully great times ahead...
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> Cheers!
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> Rafael Teixeira
> O..:.)oooo
>
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