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I am trying to understand what this license gives to me- for codeplex projects- Can anyone copy the source code and practically use it for commercial project at own risk? Or some restrictions apply?
Maruf Maniruzzaman @ Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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I am trying to understand what this license gives to me- for codeplex projects- Can anyone copy the source code and practically use it for commercial project at own risk? Or some restrictions apply?
Maruf Maniruzzaman @ Dhaka, Bangladesh.
No. What that clause means is that you need to comply with the license for the code licensed under the MS-Pl. There's no requirement that the complete derivative work needs to be similarly licensed or that you need to provide source code to your modifications or anything like that. The only thing you need to do is include the original license text. You'll still have to comply with the patent and trademark (etc) clauses though. As long as you include the license and aren't doing anything that directly violates the license, you can do pretty much anything with the code. Make any changes you like, put any restrictions you want on your code, sell it, distribute it in binary-only form, etc.Source Courtesy: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/175762/is-the-microsoft-public-license-viral[^]Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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No. What that clause means is that you need to comply with the license for the code licensed under the MS-Pl. There's no requirement that the complete derivative work needs to be similarly licensed or that you need to provide source code to your modifications or anything like that. The only thing you need to do is include the original license text. You'll still have to comply with the patent and trademark (etc) clauses though. As long as you include the license and aren't doing anything that directly violates the license, you can do pretty much anything with the code. Make any changes you like, put any restrictions you want on your code, sell it, distribute it in binary-only form, etc.Source Courtesy: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/175762/is-the-microsoft-public-license-viral[^]Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!Thank you for the reply and the link. It helps.
Maruf Maniruzzaman @ Dhaka, Bangladesh.