Contributions for other modules should be under the same license
terms as the rest of the module, or under MIT X11 terms.
- If you ned further information, please contact mono@novell.com
+ If you need further information, please contact mono@novell.com
* The Modules
This code is dual licensed under the LGPL or commercial licenses.
- The LGPL ensures that Mono can be used in most scenarios, but
- gives Novell the flexibility to relicense the code for embedded
- systems or commercial settings where the LGPL can not be used.
-
+ The LGPL ensures that Mono can be used in most scenarios, but
+ gives Novell the flexibility to relicense the code for
+ embedded systems, static linking or commercial settings where
+ the LGPL can not be used.
+
+ We consider non-LGPL use instances where you use this on an
+ embedded system where the end user is not able to upgrade the
+ Mono VM or Moonlight installation or distribution that is part
+ of your product (Section 6 and 7), you would have to obtain a
+ commercial license from Novell (consider software burned into
+ a ROM, systems where end users would not be able to upgrade,
+ an embedded console, a game console that imposes limitations
+ on the distribution and access to the code, a phone platform
+ that prevents end users from upgrading Moonlight).
+
Contact mono@novell.com for details on obtaining the Mono
runtime under other terms.
the terms of the MIT X11, this means that this code can be
used for any purposes by anyone.
+** mono/metadata/sgen*: Mono's Copying Collector
+
+ This new garbage collector is licensed under the terms of
+ the MIT X11 license, in hopes that the GC could be reused
+ by third party projects, follows the same spirit than the
+ Boehm GC.
+
+** mono/arch/*/XXX-codegen.h
+
+ This are C macros that are useful when generating native
+ code on various platforms. This code is MIT X11 licensed.
+
** mcs/mcs, mcs/gmcs
The C# Compilers (1.0 and 2.0)
- These compilers are dual licensed under the GPL and commercial
- terms.
+ These compilers are dual licensed under the GPL and MIT X11
+ license terms.
** tests
Manual pages and Mono documentation are covered by the MIT X11 license.
+* samples
+
+ The code in the "samples" directory is released under the MIT X11 license.
+
* The Licenses
These are the licenses used in Mono, the files are located: