[Mono-list] Looking at Microsoft implementation?

Bob Salita Bob_Salita@SoftworksLtd.com
Tue, 10 Jul 2001 04:52:59 -0500


>Martin wrote:
> > Does "Microsoft's implementation of .NET" mean MS's actual source for
> > .NET, or does merely ILDasm'ing mscorlib exclude someone from working on
> > Mono?
>
>MS' shared source license is incompatible with the GPL, it not being a 
>valid
>free software license. Thus, if you have seen MS's code, you are unable
>legally to contribute to this project.

Does the MS shared source license really prohibit this? Anyone have a 
pointer to the shared source license?


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