nessuno wrote:
<Quote> As a .NET developer, you should avoid using the newly
released Managed Extensibility Framework as its license
prevents its use beyond the Windows platform. This will
prevent your .NET software from running on Linux or MacOS in
the future....
The second point that is worth making is that picking licenses
like the MS-LPL for .NET software is shooting the .NET
community in the foot. The LPL license is obviously an effort
to tie things into the Windows platform, putting company
first, community and developers second.
The MS-LPL is a poisonous license, do not use it (do not
confuse with the MS-PL which is a decent license, the extra
"L" makes a big difference). - Miguel de Icaza </Quote>
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Sep-07.html
Amazing what a difference an extra "L" makes!
Interesting ....
http://www.codeplex.com/MEF/license
[quote]
2. Grant of Rights
(A) Copyright Grant- Subject to the terms of this license,
including the license conditions and limitations in section 3,
each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide,
royalty-free copyright license to reproduce its contribution,
prepare derivative works of its contribution, and distribute its
contribution or any derivative works that you create.
(B) Patent Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including
the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each
contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free
license under its licensed patents to make, have made, use, sell,
offer for sale, import, and/or otherwise dispose of its
contribution in the software or derivative works of the
contribution in the software.
3. Conditions and Limitations
[....]
(F) Platform Limitation- The licenses granted in sections 2(A) &
2(B) extend only to the software or derivative works that you
create that run on a Microsoft Windows operating system product.
[quote]
Good point to prevent single OS vendor (Microsoft) lock-in.
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HPT
Quando omni flunkus moritati
(If all else fails, play dead)
- "Red" Green
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