X-Git-Url: http://wien.tomnetworks.com/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=LICENSE;h=be4be30323b480b0c553d3c4b5d91adecd2411cd;hb=424595ea7043f30b0553f2842654db13baeda3ca;hp=f8b52eb4f7f3c13d6ec88940bc75fd5d83466de6;hpb=5b1067061258cd3198b9a97660d907a95e8522ec;p=mono.git diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index f8b52eb4f7f..be4be30323b 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ For comments, corrections and updates, please contact mono@xamarin.com 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 wher 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. @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ For comments, corrections and updates, please contact mono@xamarin.com Contributions for other modules should be under the same license terms as the rest of the module, or under MIT X11 terms. + 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 @@ -31,7 +34,7 @@ For comments, corrections and updates, please contact mono@xamarin.com 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 + gives Xamarin the flexibility to relicense the code for embedded systems, static linking or commercial settings where the LGPL can not be used. @@ -39,7 +42,7 @@ For comments, corrections and updates, please contact mono@xamarin.com 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 + 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 @@ -48,19 +51,19 @@ For comments, corrections and updates, please contact mono@xamarin.com 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/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