Added PATENTS.TXT file and link to it

[mono.git] / LICENSE

diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 216b0109ffc3ac50c4e25719654745c911a59d16..d2f61ec93e6d2968e0028f58d2936db42fc7b449 100644 (file)
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 
 In general, the runtime and its class libraries are licensed under the
 terms of the MIT license, and some third party code is licensed under
-the 3-clause BSD license.
-
-
+the 3-clause BSD license.  See the file "PATENTS.TXT" for Microsoft's
+patent grant on the Mono codebase.
 
 The Mono distribution does include a handful of pieces of code that
 are used during the build system and are covered under different
@@ -43,7 +42,7 @@ embeddable runtime:
 
 * mono/utils/memcheck.h: BSD license, used on debug builds that use Valgrind.
 
-* mono/utils/freebsd-dwarf.h, freebsd-elf_common.h, freebsd-elf64.h freebsd-elf32.h: BSD license, used on BSD systems.
+* mono/utils/freebsd-dwarf.h, freebsd-elf_common.h, freebsd-elf64.h freebsd-elf32.h: BSD license.
 
 * mono/utils/bsearch.c: BSD license.