[Mono-winforms-list] DateTimePicker : code offered (again)

[Peter Dennis Bartok]

It is purely a license problem. The original license, while it allows use, 
does reserve rights not explicitly mentioned, and also has conditions 
attached to it (patents related, plus others). It doesn't matter that you 
made changes to it, you're still bound by the Microsoft license.

You can certainly try and get it released, but I wouldn't get my hopes up.

The fact that you improved the control is not a problem for us, quite the 
opposite. Just the license...

Cheers,
  Peter


-----Original Message-----
From: "Mark Johnson" <mj10777@web.de>
To: <mono-winforms-list@lists.ximian.com>
Date: 24 January, 2005 23:54
Subject: [Mono-winforms-list] DateTimePicker : code offered (again)


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>Just to make sure I understand this correctly:
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>>> Sadly, this would make our entire library be licensed under the subset
>>> of both licenses, and ...
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>The fact that the starting was point was the MS version
>And that changes were made to :
>- make it work
>- add functionality to work the same as the Desktop Version
>  - which the original code did not
>- add multiple Language (CultureInfo) support
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>Still bound it to the conditions of the license?
>
>Would it help to contact Microsoft to get this version released from these
>conditions? I would try that if worth the effort.
>
>>> it also happens to be incompatible with the GPL,
>>> so we are unable to put this code into our tree.
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>Is that a license problem or the fact that there is more functionality in 
>my
>version than the original Desktop version of DateTimePicker?
>
>
>Mark Johnson, Berlin Germany
>mj10777@mj10777.de
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