[Mono-list] System.CodeDom.Compiler licensing issues (was Hmmm...)

[James Michael DuPont]

Would that allow for the secure usage of
that library or application by registered users of
GPLed Licenced code?

Mike

--- Miguel de Icaza <miguel@ximian.com> wrote:
> > Well, there's also
> System.CodeDOM.Compiler.ICodeParser, which takes
> > source code and parses it into a CodeDOM tree.  (I
> think Visual Studio
> > .NET uses this to handle its
> persistence-through-code-serialization.)
> > The C# parser in mcs might be a good place to
> start to provide this
> > functionality.
> 
> I noticed that .NET does not ship with any
> implementations of
> ICodeParser, and the only class that implements the
> interface
> (CodeParser) is an abstract class with "helper"
> methods, but no
> implementation at all.
> 
> So people can not depend on this existing, because
> even in .NET they
> wont be able to get anything to work with it. 
> 
> MCS might be used though to implement this beast if
> we choose to, and in
> that case, we will probably package the compiler as
> a component that can
> run on its own AppDomain, allowing for the GPL code
> to be running side
> by side with proprietary code.
> 
> Miguel.


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James Michael DuPont

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