I don't normally reply to people when they post something totally unrelated to the current thread, but I thought I'd do you a favor and correct some of your bigger misconceptions.
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Originally Posted by Nibbles
Not to start a flame war, but no one cares about .net or Microsoft's open-source-wannabe-license. Public domain or a simple "Redistribute alike" clause offers more then enough protection.
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Its never a good idea to release code without an accompanying license, both for you and anyone who wants to use it. If I use someone's code which isn't licensed properly I could be leaving myself vulnerable, no matter how small that vulnerability is, its safer to attach a real license,
any license, so everybody involved knows their rights and responsibilities.
MsPL just happened to be the first license I saw which had terms I agreed with.
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Originally Posted by Nibbles
And even if we did care about a bigo license, no one uses .net for anything anyways
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That is just not true. For business apps .net is more popular than Java(#2), there are millions of ASP.net web servers, and over 4000 open source projects are hosted on CodeProject.
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Originally Posted by Nibbles
since the number of platforms I can use it on I can count on one hand, no, one finger!</rant>
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Also false, unless you have some serious disfigument, in which case I applogize for the next paragraph. .net currently runs on Linux, Mac, XBox 360, Zune*, and of course Windows. Also some people count the web scenarios seperatly, which includes Windows(IIS or Apache), Linux(Apache), and I believe Mac.
On a side note, did you download my code just so you could complain, or are you a closet .net fan?
* Currently in beta.