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| 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/coreclr, | |
| https://github.com/dotnet/corefx and https://github.com/dotnet/corert. | |
| ".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. |