Microsoft.NET now open source

[mrslig100]

https://gigaom.com/2014/11/12/a-milesto ... e-project/
This will be interesting to see...
One of wines main flaws is functional .NET support
This could play out really well for us!

[oiaohm]

mrslig100 don't party too soon we still have to see what its licensing is like.

[mrslig100]

Fair enough but I can dream cant I?
Either way the odds are it may effect microsoft.NET support on wine

[oiaohm]

mrslig100 unfortunately the patent license is still crap. Its implement per .net standard to be covered. Problem Microsoft own .net implementations had bugs where they deviate from the standard. The code on the git is the newer fixed stuff. Wine of course will be after to run some of the older and busted implementation dependant code.

Thinking wine uses mono a lot reduced bugs in Mono will help. Help will have its limitations.

[MajorLunaC]

Hey, if it'll help getting even half the stuff, listed as broken on Wine AppDB, that uses .NET to work even to a basic level (nothing flashy, just functioning), I'd be pleased. It's a major impediment to getting so many programs working through Wine.

[oiaohm]

MajorLunaC its the older .net applications that have the habit of being dependent on features outside standard.

This change should help more with newer than older .net applications. People don't notice that under windows they end up with 4 versions of .net installed. Reason they are not compatible with each other as they should be by the standard. Yes all those incompatibilities are outside the standard.

[Bamm]

mrslig100 don't party too soon we still have to see what its licensing is like.

Microsoft is releasing it under the MIT license. They are only open sourcing .NET Core (compiler and runtime engine). They are not open sourcing the development tools (Visual Studio), and they are not open sourcing parts of .NET that are heavily integrated into Windows (e.g, libraries that run Windows tools).

[oiaohm]

Bamm MIT license does not include patent license.
https://github.com/Microsoft/references ... ATENTS.TXT

Bamm MIT license does not cause restrictions but it contains not patent grants. The permissions to use Microsoft patents cause the issues for wine.

Bamm remember no patent grants not legal usage in many countries..