Mono is made up of many pieces of code, all of them open source, but
different pieces of Mono use different licensing terms.
-For comments, corrections and updates, please contact mono@novell.com
+For comments, corrections and updates, please contact mono@xamarin.com
* Dual Licensing
Parts of Mono are dual licensed, they are available to the
public in GPL or LGPL forms, but we also offer those pieces
- under commercial terms from Novell for when the GPL and the
- LGPL are not suitable.
+ under commercial terms from Xamarin for the cases where the
+ GPL and the LGPL are not suitable.
We have tried to pick the licenses that will maximize adoption
of Mono, so we tend to use the MIT X11 or LGPL liceses.
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
+ For the actual license links in the Mono distribution see the
+ bottom of this file.
+
+ If you need further information, please contact mono@xamarin.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.
-
- Contact mono@novell.com for details on obtaining the Mono
+ The LGPL ensures that Mono can be used in most scenarios, but
+ gives Xamarin 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 Xamarin (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@xamarin.com for details on obtaining the Mono
runtime under other terms.
+** mono/support: MonoPosixHelper and support code
+
+ This code is dual licensed under the LGPL or commercial licenses, with
+ the same guidelines as mono/mono code.
+
+ The ZLib files are included under a "new BSD"-style license.
+
** mono/eglib: Mono's X11 glib implementation
This is a minimal subset of glib that is to be licensed under
the terms of the MIT X11, this means that this code can be
used for any purposes by anyone.
+** 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
ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib, GPL with exceptions.
See: mcs/class/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib/README
+** mcs/class/System.Core/System/TimeZoneInfo.Android.cs
+
+ This is a port of Apache 2.0-licensed Android code, and thus is
+ licensed under the Apache 2.0 license:
+
+ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
** mcs/tools
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:
projects / mono.git / blobdiff