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