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“Microsoft announced today that it is open-sourcing the
.NET Micro Framework under an Apache 2.0 licence.“Peter Galli, a Microsoft open source community manager, said in
the announcement that “Including the source code for almost all of
the product also ensures that developers now also get access to the
Base Class Libraries that were implemented for .NET Micro Framework
and the CLR code itself.”“Being an Apache licence means that, ironically, anyone can pick
up the .NET Micro Framework and re-licence it under a proprietary
licence. But not all the parts of the framework are being opened;
the TCP/IP stack was made by a third party, EBSNet, and separate
arrangements would need to be made with EBSNet for that source
code.”