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Open-sourcing .NET doesn't magically make it work on other platforms (a not-insignificant chunk is Win32-specific, for example). But it certainly makes the Mono
by jxf 12y ago
Open-sourcing .NET doesn't magically make it work on other platforms (a not-insignificant chunk is Win32-specific, for example). But it certainly makes the Mono team's job easier.
- viraptor 12y agoThey say open source, but not which license they're going to use. It may not be possible to integrate with anything in practice, or as free as developers would like it to be.
- jxf 12y agoIt would pretty dumb of them to take this step and then pick a license which wasn't permissive enough to make it happen. Plus, given that they mention they're working with the Mono team on this, I'm sure they're going to get good advice.
- SideburnsOfDoom 12y ago> They say open source, but not which license they're going to use. AFAIK, it will be MIT licence. Edit: Yep, MIT. It's not like it's secret: https://github.com/dotnet/corefx https://github.com/dotnet/corefx
- px1999 12y agoIt's MIT (and there's also a patent promise). https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/blob/master/LICENSE
- robert_nsu 12y agoThey are using the MIT license. Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/announcing-net-2015-preview-a-new-era-for-net.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/announcing...
- Mikeb85 12y agoNope but Microsoft is making it work on other platforms. From the opening line: > and expanding .NET to run on the Linux and Mac OS platforms. http://news.microsoft.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-takes-net-open-source-and-cross-platform-adds-new-development-capabilities-with-visual-studio-2015-net-2015-and-visual-studio-online/ http://news.microsoft.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-takes-net-ope...