Microsoft dist dotnet license
by Dimitris Karakasilis
Hello,
I've been trying to understand the current status of .NET on Linux
regarding building from sources and licensing. For the first one, I
could find most answers I needed in this GitHub issue:
https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/issues/187
but for the second (licensing), I couldn't find a clear answer
somewhere. It seems that .NET framework consists of many different tools
and components which might have different licenses. Given that there is
no central place which holds all the source code (see issue #1), it is
hard to tell if there are any proprietary bits. There is one place
though, where it is stated that proprietary bits should only exist in
the Windows distributions:
https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/project-docs/...
Now, I read in the fedoraproject.org page
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DotNet) that Microsoft's dotnet package
is proprietary (it is the text in the parentheses next to the link). Is
there a place where it is clearly stated that the Microsoft provided
binaries are distributed under a "non-opensource" license?
Thank you,
Dimitris Karakasilis
5 years, 6 months
