Ms-PL Source Release for System.Web.Mvc 2

• Mar 12, 2010
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Hot on the heels of the release of ASP.NET MVC 2 yesterday, I’m happy to announce that we are releasing the source code to ASP.NET MVC 2 under the Ms-PL license, an OSI approved Open Source license.

This continues the trend from nearly a year ago when we released ASP.NET MVC 1.0 under the Ms-PL. You can read my blog post there to learn more about the hard work that goes into such releases.

While I’m one who loves lawyer jokes, I do appreciate the work that they do (one of my best friends is a lawyer) and am grateful for the hard work our legal team put in to make this happen again.

Get the source!

To grab the source code, visit the ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM Download Details page and look for the file named mvc2-ms-pl.zip.

What’s next?

This time around, we’re not planning to stop with just the source code for System.Web.Mvc.dll. There’s a bit more source I would like to release under the Ms-PL which should hopefully be coming soon if I can get the ducks to line in a row (who knew releasing code required working with ducks?!).

What others have said

Daniel Huckstep Mar 12, 2010 10:26 AM

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Nice work! This will no doubt help improve ASP.NET MVC and I think simply make people happy.

Caleb Jenkins Mar 12, 2010 10:29 AM

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Great work MVC team! This is awesome news!

"we’re not planning to stop with just the source code" - awesome. can't wait to see it!

Brian Olson Mar 12, 2010 10:30 AM

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Does the "bit more source" you would like to release include the Visual Studio tooling? That tooling is a very valuable tool to convince people to try ASP.NET MVC - it would be nice to be able to extend it in a few ways.

Adam Ford Mar 12, 2010 10:42 AM

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I dunno about you guys, but here we have ducks involved in our entire software development process. ;)

Mohamed Meligy Mar 12, 2010 10:49 AM

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Hey Phil,
I can't find the file "mvc2-ms-pl.zip" in Microsoft download details page www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx

Only can see "ASP.NET-MVC-2-RTM-Release-Notes.doc" and "AspNetMVC2_VS2008.exe".

I could still find the download though, in the CodePlex downloads page http://aspnet.codeplex.com/releases/view/41742

Thanks to you and the entire team for the nice framework.

Dmitry Mar 12, 2010 11:30 AM

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Отличные новости

Craig Stuntz Mar 12, 2010 12:08 PM

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Hmmm... I knew that Python was duck typed, but C# not so much. :)

Paul Alexander Mar 12, 2010 2:59 PM

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What's the difference between this and what's available on CodePlex? Is it just the official bundle or is it licensed differently?

Keith Murray Mar 13, 2010 1:02 PM

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Fantastic news Phil! Thanks to you and your whole team for jumping through the necessary hoops to keep MVC an open-source initiative. It's things like this that have really helped to bring the 'New Microsoft' forward over the past few years.

Keep up the great work!

haacked Mar 13, 2010 8:20 PM

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@Paul Alexander It's licensed differently than the source in CodePlex.

Tim S Mar 14, 2010 4:28 PM

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Are we going to see a .NET 4 build of ASP.NET MVC 2?

John Simons Mar 14, 2010 4:28 PM

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This is great but we need a bit more clarification, let me explain.
What happens when the project I work under releases under a different license eg Apache License, Version 2.0.

I'm asking because according to the Conditions and Limitations of MS-PL, specifically this one "(D) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of this license with your distribution. If you distribute any portion of the software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under a license that complies with this license."

This to me (I'm not a lawyer) states that the license I use to release my software under needs to comply with MS-PL, right?
So, the problem I'm facing is that I'm finding it very hard to find out what licenses comply with MS-PL, eg does ASFL(http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html) complies with MS-PL?

Cheers
John

Will Mar 15, 2010 8:00 AM

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So will Linq to SQL be ever be released under the MS-Pl license? It seems the least that Microsoft can do after killing the project after such a short time and leaving many projects wishing that they had gone with a non-microsoft data solution.

Asad Ali Butt Mar 15, 2010 4:12 PM

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congrats and do appriciate your efforts

sureyya uslu Mar 16, 2010 2:21 AM

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Hey , perfect new release , i am listening to your talk right now on .NET Rocks ,


P.S. : just realized one thing , is the picture of yours in this blog and the picture in .NET Rocks has been taken same day?

geld lenen Mar 17, 2010 4:01 AM

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I read that previous post and I think it was very helpful.

Arun Mahendrakar Mar 18, 2010 1:58 AM

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Dude.. u just ROCK!

haacked Mar 24, 2010 9:10 PM

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@John unfortunately, I'm not a lawyer so I can't provide legal advice.

It seems to me that you could simply have multiple licenses. Ms-PL for the Ms-PL portion of the code and Apache for the rest of it. Again, I'm not a lawyer so don't take this as advice. I'll pose the question on twitter to see if anyone responds.

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