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- Microsoft Patent Promise for .NET Libraries and Runtime Components
- Microsoft Corporation and its affiliates ("Microsoft") promise not to assert
- any .NET Patents against you for making, using, selling, offering for sale,
- importing, or distributing Covered Code, as part of either a .NET Runtime or
- as part of any application designed to run on a .NET Runtime.
- If you file, maintain, or voluntarily participate in any claim in a lawsuit
- alleging direct or contributory patent infringement by any Covered Code, or
- inducement of patent infringement by any Covered Code, then your rights under
- this promise will automatically terminate.
- This promise is not an assurance that (i) any .NET Patents are valid or
- enforceable, or (ii) Covered Code does not infringe patents or other
- intellectual property rights of any third party. No rights except those
- expressly stated in this promise are granted, waived, or received by
- Microsoft, whether by implication, exhaustion, estoppel, or otherwise.
- This is a personal promise directly from Microsoft to you, and you agree as a
- condition of benefiting from it that no Microsoft rights are received from
- suppliers, distributors, or otherwise from any other person in connection with
- this promise.
- Definitions:
- "Covered Code" means those Microsoft .NET libraries and runtime components as
- made available by Microsoft at https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr,
- https://github.com/dotnet/corefx and https://github.com/dotnet/corert.
- ".NET Patents" are those patent claims, both currently owned by Microsoft and
- acquired in the future, that are necessarily infringed by Covered Code. .NET
- Patents do not include any patent claims that are infringed by any Enabling
- Technology, that are infringed only as a consequence of modification of
- Covered Code, or that are infringed only by the combination of Covered Code
- with third party code.
- ".NET Runtime" means any compliant implementation in software of (a) all of
- the required parts of the mandatory provisions of Standard ECMA-335 – Common
- Language Infrastructure (CLI); and (b) if implemented, any additional
- functionality in Microsoft's .NET Framework, as described in Microsoft's API
- documentation on its MSDN website. For example, .NET Runtimes include
- Microsoft's .NET Framework and those portions of the Mono Project compliant
- with (a) and (b).
- "Enabling Technology" means underlying or enabling technology that may be
- used, combined, or distributed in connection with Microsoft's .NET Framework
- or other .NET Runtimes, such as hardware, operating systems, and applications
- that run on .NET Framework or other .NET Runtimes.
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