Author: .NET Web Development and Tools Blog | Posted on: 7/24/2013 8:38:11 PM | Views : 1070

(cross-posted from http://codebetter.com/howarddierking/2013/07/23/katana-license-lifts-windows-only-restriction/) Over the past few months, a great deal of attention has been paid to the following clause used in most of the licenses associated with the NuGet packages that we and other teams at Microsoft ship. “ a. Distribution Restrictions. You may not … distribute Distributable Code to run on a platform other than the Windows platform; ” In the case of the ASP.NET-related projects, including project Katana, this license (and the associated restriction) does not apply to the source code, but rather to the compiled binaries that are distributed via NuGet (the Katana source code is released under the Apache 2.0 license ). This...(read more) ...

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