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WPF is MIT licensed, available on github. The fact that it's windows only doesn't make it less FOSS. Microsoft doesn't have incentive to port it to other platfo
by stanac 2y ago
WPF is MIT licensed, available on github. The fact that it's windows only doesn't make it less FOSS. Microsoft doesn't have incentive to port it to other platforms but other people and companies are free to do that.
- MarkSweep 2y agoWPF is not the best example of open source, as some components are still closed source. Though it only runs on Windows, a closed source operating system, so perhaps that is not so important. https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/2554 https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/2554 That said, there are cross platform, open source .NET UI frameworks out there, including one that is inspired by WPF: https://avaloniaui.net/ https://avaloniaui.net/