Microsoft dist dotnet license

[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/cop...

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

[Omair Majid]

Hi,

* Dimitris Karakasilis  [2018-03-26 04:43]:
> 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?

Hmm. As you say, it's hard to get definitive answers. This may be out of
date information.

I would look at the distribution you download and check the LICENSE.txt
and ThirdPartyNotices.txt files. The recent .NET Core 2.0 binaries seem
to be under open source licenses on Linux.

Regards,
Omair

[Radka Janekova]

We actually refer to licenses for vscode and csplugin at fedoraloves.net
where we also mention that the MS built packages contain proprietary
binaries. The wiki page itself is obsolete (and is referencing the dev
portal, fedoraloves.net) so I'm not even sure what's in it... Anyway as far
as I know the MS packages still contain the bits of the .NET Framework (the
source of the omnisharp issues and confusion) and as such it can not
possibly be released under any cute license and is under proprietary
license as well, but there is no online reference to it.

Either way, all of the source code is open under MIT (with some stuff under
apache or whatever, like documentation, etc) and as long as you or reliable
source builds it the result will also be nice. (The question becomes
whether you can build it, or not...)

Radka

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*Radka Janeková*
.NET Engineer, Red Hat
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 4:35 PM, Omair Majid  wrote:
> Hi,
> Dimitris Karakasilis  [2018-03-26 04:43]:
> > 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?
>
> Hmm. As you say, it's hard to get definitive answers. This may be out of
> date information.
>
> I would look at the distribution you download and check the LICENSE.txt
> and ThirdPartyNotices.txt files. The recent .NET Core 2.0 binaries seem
> to be under open source licenses on Linux.
>
> Regards,
> Omair
>
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