MS promises to not sue over Mono

[Christopher Olah]

Greetings all!

Given that there has been some turbulence on this risk over Mono
(namely the threat of patents and alleged censorship), I think it's
worth drawing attention to this post: The ECMA C# and CLI Standards
by Peter Galli (http://port25.technet.com/archive/2009/07/06/the-ecma-c-and-cli-standards.aspx)

    Quote:

I have some good news to announce: Microsoft will be applying the
Community Promise to the ECMA 334 and ECMA 335 specs.

ECMA 334 specifies the form and establishes the interpretation of
programs written in the C# programming language, while the ECMA 335
standard defines the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) in which
applications written in multiple high-level languages can be executed
in different system environments without the need to rewrite those
applications to take into consideration the unique characteristics of
those environments.

...

It is important to note that, under the Community Promise, anyone can
freely implement these specifications with their technology, code, and
solutions.

...

Under the Community Promise, Microsoft provides assurance that it will
not assert its Necessary Claims against anyone who makes, uses, sells,
offers for sale, imports, or distributes any Covered Implementation
under any type of development or distribution model, including
open-source licensing models such as the LGPL or GPL.