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Chandra
Chandra

Reputation:

Sharing ASP.NET MVC applications

Like everybody else on this planet, I am currently working on a blogging engine using ASP.NET MVC .

I am planning to make this open source under GPL, with a requirement that people already have ASP.NET 3.5 already installed on their machines. Let us say that they do not already have ASP.NET MVC installed (on a shared host)

But, I would like them to host my application inspite of that.

I found this interesting post here by Haack http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/03/bin-deploy-aspnetmvc.aspx, which suggests to include the below references in Bin directory

My question is, Is it legal for me to include these assemblies in the bin directory when sharing the application?

Thanks, Chandra

Upvotes: 0

Views: 119

Answers (2)

apiguy
apiguy

Reputation: 5362

Yes it is. These are redistributable assemblies.

The license is MS-PL, an open source license from Microsoft that allows redistribution.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/04/01/asp-net-mvc-1-0.aspx

The only catch is that it's not compatible with GPL, so you may want to think of using a different open source license for your project.

Upvotes: 1

Robban
Robban

Reputation: 6802

Since ASP.NET MVC is released under the Microsoft Public License, you can read more here http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ms-pl.html

I'd say that'd be perfectly legal. It is open source after all.

You can also read some more about the license here: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ms-pl.html

Upvotes: 1

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