2 Mono is made up of many pieces of code, all of them open source, but
3 different pieces of Mono use different licensing terms.
5 For comments, corrections and updates, please contact mono@novell.com
9 Parts of Mono are dual licensed, they are available to the
10 public in GPL or LGPL forms, but we also offer those pieces
11 under commercial terms from Novell for when the GPL and the
12 LGPL are not suitable.
14 We have tried to pick the licenses that will maximize adoption
15 of Mono, so we tend to use the MIT X11 or LGPL liceses.
17 Contributions to dual-licensed module require that the author
18 contributes the code under the terms of the MIT X11 code, or
19 to sign an agreement that allows Novell to redistribute the
20 code under other licenses.
22 Contributions for other modules should be under the same license
23 terms as the rest of the module, or under MIT X11 terms.
25 If you ned further information, please contact mono@novell.com
29 ** mono/mono: the Mono VM
31 This code is dual licensed under the LGPL or commercial licenses.
33 The LGPL ensures that Mono can be used in most scenarios, but
34 gives Novell the flexibility to relicense the code for
35 embedded systems, static linking or commercial settings where
36 the LGPL can not be used.
38 Contact mono@novell.com for details on obtaining the Mono
39 runtime under other terms.
41 ** mono/eglib: Mono's X11 glib implementation
43 This is a minimal subset of glib that is to be licensed under
44 the terms of the MIT X11, this means that this code can be
45 used for any purposes by anyone.
49 The C# Compilers (1.0 and 2.0)
51 These compilers are dual licensed under the GPL and commercial
56 Unless explicitly stated, the tests are under the MIT X11 license.
60 The class libraries developed by the Mono team are licensed
61 under the MIT X11 terms.
63 In addition to the class libraries developed by the Mono team,
64 there are a number of class libraries that we bundle as part
65 of the distribution that were integrated from third-parties or
66 that contain code that was originally licensed under different
73 FirebirdSql.Data.Firebird: Firebird public license.
74 See: mcs/class/FirebirdSql.Data.Firebird/license.txt
76 ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib, GPL with exceptions.
77 See: mcs/class/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib/README
82 These are licensed under the MIT X11 license, except where the
83 GPL is explicitly used.
87 This is a port of Berkeley yacc, so it is available under the BSD
88 license. See the license in the individual C files for details.
92 Manual pages and Mono documentation are covered by the MIT X11 license.
96 These are the licenses used in Mono, the files are located:
98 GNU GPL: details avaliable in the file mcs/LICENSE.GPL
99 GNU LGPL: details available in the file mcs/LICENSE.LGPL
100 MIT X11: text available in the file mcs/MIT.X11
101 MPL: text available in the file mcs/LICENSE.MPL