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Microsoft Makes .NET Source Code Available

Feb 13 2011 03:57 PM | AWS in Source Code

Microsoft made good on its promise to offer <a href="http://www.crn.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=.Net&x=&y=">.Net</a> Framework 3.5 source code this week, three months after Scott Guthrie, a general manager within the Microsoft Developer division, posted Microsoft's intent on his blog. The <a href="http://www.crn.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=source%20code&x=&y=">source code</a> to classes such as System, IO, Windows.Forms, and others is now viewable from within Visual Studio. When the announcement was first made, however, some developers viewed it as a Pandora's Box because the source code would be released under a "Reference" license, which meant developers could view the code but not use or modify it. On Wednesday Guthrie revealed a small change in the licensing which addresses those concerns:

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"We made a small change to the license to specifically call out that the license does not apply to users developing software for a non-Windows <a href="http://www.crn.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=platform&x=&y=">platform</a> that has 'the same or substantially the same features or functionality' as the .NET Framework," he wrote. "If the software you are developing is for <a href="http://www.crn.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=Windows&x=&y=">Windows</a> platforms, you can look at the code, even if that <a href="http://www.crn.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=software&x=&y=">software</a> has 'the same or substantially the same features or functionality' as the .NET Framework."

You can read the rest <a href="http://www.crn.com/software/205901240" target="_blank">here</a>.