From ef1e2ab328087c61a6878c1e84f4fc5d710aebce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dotnet-bot Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:14:42 -0800 Subject: Initial commit to populate CoreCLR repo [tfs-changeset: 1407945] --- PATENTS.TXT | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) create mode 100644 PATENTS.TXT (limited to 'PATENTS.TXT') diff --git a/PATENTS.TXT b/PATENTS.TXT new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9899379fa5 --- /dev/null +++ b/PATENTS.TXT @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +Microsoft Patent Promise for .NET Libraries and Runtime Components + +Microsoft Corporation and its affiliates ("Microsoft") promise not to assert +any .NET Patents against you for making, using, selling, offering for sale, +importing, or distributing Covered Code, as part of either a .NET Runtime or +as part of any application designed to run on a .NET Runtime. + +If you file, maintain, or voluntarily participate in any claim in a lawsuit +alleging direct or contributory patent infringement by any Covered Code, or +inducement of patent infringement by any Covered Code, then your rights under +this promise will automatically terminate. + +This promise is not an assurance that (i) any .NET Patents are valid or +enforceable, or (ii) Covered Code does not infringe patents or other +intellectual property rights of any third party. No rights except those +expressly stated in this promise are granted, waived, or received by +Microsoft, whether by implication, exhaustion, estoppel, or otherwise. +This is a personal promise directly from Microsoft to you, and you agree as a +condition of benefiting from it that no Microsoft rights are received from +suppliers, distributors, or otherwise from any other person in connection with +this promise. + +Definitions: + +"Covered Code" means those Microsoft .NET libraries and runtime components as +made available by Microsoft at https://github.com/dotnet/corefx. + +".NET Patents" are those patent claims, both currently owned by Microsoft and +acquired in the future, that are necessarily infringed by Covered Code. .NET +Patents do not include any patent claims that are infringed by any Enabling +Technology, that are infringed only as a consequence of modification of +Covered Code, or that are infringed only by the combination of Covered Code +with third party code. + +".NET Runtime" means any compliant implementation in software of (a) all of +the required parts of the mandatory provisions of Standard ECMA-335 – Common +Language Infrastructure (CLI); and (b) if implemented, any additional +functionality in Microsoft's .NET Framework, as described in Microsoft's API +documentation on its MSDN website. For example, .NET Runtimes include +Microsoft's .NET Framework and those portions of the Mono Project compliant +with (a) and (b). + +"Enabling Technology" means underlying or enabling technology that may be +used, combined, or distributed in connection with Microsoft's .NET Framework +or other .NET Runtimes, such as hardware, operating systems, and applications +that run on .NET Framework or other .NET Runtimes. \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3