X-Git-Url: http://wien.tomnetworks.com/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=LICENSE;h=216b0109ffc3ac50c4e25719654745c911a59d16;hb=ef0ddf45c3081e799edcb4e95770186514b80cf1;hp=ad5cbb429ff8967d651bee84d1d13edfb8439474;hpb=8831ab4f6b50bd2120ac113fc81d374e1b4e7580;p=mono.git diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index ad5cbb429ff..216b0109ffc 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -1,138 +1,77 @@ -Mono is made up of many pieces of code, all of them open source, but -different pieces of Mono use different licensing terms. +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. -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 Xamarin for the cases where the - GPL and the LGPL are not suitable. +The Mono distribution does include a handful of pieces of code that +are used during the build system and are covered under different +licenses, those include: - We have tried to pick the licenses that will maximize adoption - of Mono, so we tend to use the MIT X11 or LGPL liceses. +Build Time Code +=============== - Contributions to dual-licensed module require that the author - contributes the code under the terms of the MIT X11 code, or - to sign an agreement that allows Novell to redistribute the - code under other licenses. +This is code that is used at build time, or during the maintenance of +Mono itself, and does not end up in the redistributable part of Mono: - Contributions for other modules should be under the same license - terms as the rest of the module, or under MIT X11 terms. +* gettext - For the actual license links in the Mono distribution see the - bottom of this file. + m4 source files used to probe features at build time: GPL - If you need further information, please contact mono@xamarin.com +* Benchmark Source Files -* The Modules + Logic.cs and zipmark.cs are GPL source files. -** mono/mono: the Mono VM +* mono/docs/HtmlAgilityPack - This code is dual licensed under the LGPL or commercial licenses. + MS-PL licensed - 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. +* mcs/jay: 4-clause BSD licensed - 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. +* mcs/nunit24: MS-PL -** mono/support: MonoPosixHelper and support code +* mcs/class/I18N/mklist.sh, tools/cvt.sh: GNU GPLv2 - This code is dual licensed under the LGPL or commercial licenses, with - the same guidelines as mono/mono code. +Runtime Code +============ - The ZLib files are included under a "new BSD"-style license. +The following code is linked with the final Mono runtime, the libmono +embeddable runtime: -** mono/eglib: Mono's X11 glib implementation +* support/minizip: BSD license. - 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/utils/memcheck.h: BSD license, used on debug builds that use Valgrind. -** mono/arch/*/XXX-codegen.h +* mono/utils/freebsd-dwarf.h, freebsd-elf_common.h, freebsd-elf64.h freebsd-elf32.h: BSD license, used on BSD systems. - This are C macros that are useful when generating native - code on various platforms. 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See the license in the individual C files for details. - -** mono/man - - 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 +The Licenses +============ These are the licenses used in Mono, the files are located: - GNU GPL: details avaliable in the file mcs/LICENSE.GPL - GNU LGPL: details available in the file mcs/LICENSE.LGPL MIT X11: text available in the file mcs/MIT.X11 MPL: text available in the file mcs/LICENSE.MPL - + InfoZip: text available in the file mcs/LICENSE.INFOZIP.BSD