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Is MS-PL (Microsoft Public License) code allowed in commercial product? [closed]

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It’s the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL). Yes, you can pretty much do whatever you want with the code. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/msp-n-p/ff648068(v=pandp.10) However, do read the conditions. Ones worth noting: If you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the software. If you distribute any … Read more

What does “commercial use” exactly mean? [closed]

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“Commercial use” in cases like this is actually just a shorthand to indicate that the product is dual-licensed under both an open source and a traditional paid-for commercial license. Any “true” open source license will not discriminate against commercial use. (See clause 6 of the Open Source Definition.) However, open source licenses like the GPL … Read more

What are some good open source c# examples of quality domain models [closed]

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I liked lot the architecture of oxite cms at http://www.codeplex.com/oxite. I learned lot from that project. I use nhibernate for data access instead of linq2sql and it works good for me. Of course its not a large scale project but its a perfect start. CSLA does not follow the DDD paradigm. The above book “.NET … Read more

Does an updated ‘vimtutor’ exist? [closed]

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It’s not exactly a tutorial, but I’ve been impressed with @nelstrom’s growing collection of screencasts at vimcasts.org: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/archive Each short video covers a single topic (or a small set of closely-related topics), and the ones I’ve watched have been informative and enjoyable. The author says that “the aim is to provide something in each episode … Read more

Corporate-Friendly Open Source Licenses [closed]

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I recommend the Apache License (specifically, version 2). It is not a “copy left” license and it addresses several matters that are important to established companies and their lawyers. “Copy left” is the philosophy of the free software foundation requiring anything incorporating the licensed opens source code to also be licensed as open source. That … Read more

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