Re: News: .NET framework source code available soon...

Peter Duniho wrote:

I guess the one thing missing from this announcement is how this all
relates to a project like Mono. It would be pretty awesome if Microsoft
would allow the source code to be used for cross-platform
implementations of .NET, and could dramatically decrease the lag of
non-Windows .NET implementations behind the Windows releases.

The current consensus is, that if you look at this code provided by MS, you
will no longer be able to contribute to Mono.

The problem is, that by looking at the code (and that is all you can,
really), you place yourself at risk for legal actions from MS against you,
if you happen to produce code that "looks" like their code.

This is a real risk, and should not be ignored. Please note, that MS license
does _not_ allow you to use their code, but actually place you in risk of
legal actions.

This probably wont be a problem to most, but as I have contributed 5-6 minor
patches to Mono and my company are producing more and more open source
software, I probably will not look at the MS code at all. Would be stupid
of me, really.

Regards,

Mads

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