On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 06:12, Ben Cooley wrote: > If you haven't heard, Microsoft has revised it's licencing for the > Visual Studio Integration SDK so that it is now free, and largely > unrestricted license wise. Actually, the license is really bad. IE unusable for most of us: >From http://www.vsipdev.com/downloads/vsipsdk2003.aspx.
(all of the license is marked by lines beginning with >, my comments have no prefix) > “Eligible Product(s)” means Your software development tools and > products which work in conjunction with Visual Studio .NET Technology > and which [...] (iv) have as a primary purpose creation of > applications that operate on Microsoft Platforms. The lawyers might call you on 4. > “Integration Code” means the software code that You develop through > use of the VSIP-SDK to integrate Your Eligible Products into Visual > Studio .NET Technology. [...] > > You shall not expose or enable others to expose the functionality > contained in the Integration Code in a manner that allows it to be > accessed or used by any third party product. By way of example but not > limitation, You may not disclose the Integration Code to third parties > in source code form; So much for open source.... > You may only distribute the Integration Code with Your Eligible > Products; You may not distribute the Integration Code on a standalone > basis; It sounds like we must sell the product. So, it looks like the license will block any progress in this area ;(. -- Ben _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
