[Mono-osx] License question

Geoff Norton gnorton at novell.com
Thu Jul 30 15:43:54 EDT 2009


On 30-Jul-09, at 3:39 PM, Poor Angus wrote:

>
> I know this must be documented somewhere, but I'm going crazy trying  
> to
> locate a definitive answer.. so please don't be too hard on me.
>
> I'm simply wondering what the legalities are behind distributing a  
> piece of
> commercial software, in binary-only, which is the result of a .NET  
> project
> being compiled on PC (by MS compilers), then packaged with Mono for
> distribution to OSX users.
>
> Since the resultant executable would contain both Mono and Microsoft  
> code, I
> can't help but wonder if this is allowed. If so, what kind of  
> acknowledgment
> am I required to give either party?

Why would is contain any microsoft code?  You're just using their  
compiler.  In this case you're just bound by the licenses that mono  
falls under.

http://mono-project.com/Licensing

-g



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