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

Mar 12, 2010 aspnet aspnetmvc oss code suggest edit

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 theMs-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?!).

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Comments

19 responses

Daniel Huckstep • March 11th, 2010
Nice work! This will no doubt help improve ASP.NET MVC and I think simply make people happy.
Caleb Jenkins • March 11th, 2010
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 • March 11th, 2010
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 • March 11th, 2010
I dunno about you guys, but here we have ducks involved in our entire software development process. ;)
Mohamed Meligy • March 11th, 2010
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 • March 12th, 2010
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Craig Stuntz • March 12th, 2010
Hmmm... I knew that Python was duck typed, but C# not so much. :)
Paul Alexander • March 12th, 2010
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 • March 13th, 2010
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 • March 13th, 2010
@Paul Alexander It's licensed differently than the source in CodePlex.
Tim S • March 14th, 2010
Are we going to see a .NET 4 build of ASP.NET MVC 2?
John Simons • March 14th, 2010
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 • March 14th, 2010
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 • March 15th, 2010
congrats and do appriciate your efforts
sureyya uslu • March 15th, 2010
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 • March 16th, 2010
I read that previous post and I think it was very helpful.
Arun Mahendrakar • March 17th, 2010
Dude.. u just ROCK!
haacked • March 24th, 2010
@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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