Microsoft promises no patent prosecution of open-source .NET • The Register
By Gavin Clarke in San Francisco
Microsoft is promising not to pursue patent claims against Linux and open-source software using the open-source implementation of .NET, Project Mono.
The company has said that third party implementations of its C# and the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) – a language runtime – will be made available under its Community Promise. The promise will cover ECMA specifications 334 and 335 – C# and CLI respectively.
That means developers, users and distributors of Mono, which implements the C# and CLI specs, should be protected against possible action by Microsoft.
There was no word on why Microsoft has made the promise, but it’s a sudden move likely designed to limit damage between Microsoft and the community over Mono.
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