[Mono-list] .net reference license

Tinco Andringa mail at tinco.nl
Fri Jan 18 06:58:00 EST 2008


>From scott guthrie's blogpost on wednesday:

"Reference License

The .NET Framework source is being released under a read-only reference 
license. When we announced that we were releasing the source back in 
October, some people had concerns about the potential impact of their 
viewing the source. To help clarify and address these concerns, we made a 
small change to the license to specifically call out that the license does 
not apply to users developing software for a non-Windows platform that has 
"the same or substantially the same features or functionality" as the .NET 
Framework. If the software you are developing is for Windows platforms, you 
can look at the code, even if that software has "the same or substantially 
the same features or functionality" as the .NET Framework."

I guess this settles the reference license questions, no reading sources for 
mono developers. As was already suggested by Miquel and others. 



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