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Microsoft made good on its promise to offer http://www.crn.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=.Net&x=&y= .Net Framework 3.5 source code this week, three months after Scott Guthrie, a general manager within the Microsoft Developer division, posted Microsofts intent on his blog. The http://www.crn.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=source%20code&x=&y= source code to classes such as System, IO, Windows.Forms, and others is now viewable from within Visual Studio. When the announcement was first made, however, some developers viewed it as a Pandoras Box because the source code would be released under a "Reference" license, which meant developers could view the code but not use or modify it. On Wednesday Guthrie revealed a small change in the licensing which addresses those concerns:
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"We made a small change to the license to specifically call out that the license does not apply to users developing software for a non-Windows http://www.crn.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=platform&x=&y= platform that has the same or substantially the same features or functionality as the .NET Framework," he wrote. "If the software you are developing is for http://www.crn.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=Windows&x=&y= Windows platforms, you can look at the code, even if that http://www.crn.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=software&x=&y= software has the same or substantially the same features or functionality as the .NET Framework."
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"We made a small change to the license to specifically call out that the license does not apply to users developing software for a non-Windows http://www.crn.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=platform&x=&y= platform that has the same or substantially the same features or functionality as the .NET Framework," he wrote. "If the software you are developing is for http://www.crn.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=Windows&x=&y= Windows platforms, you can look at the code, even if that http://www.crn.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=software&x=&y= software has the same or substantially the same features or functionality as the .NET Framework."
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