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Microsoft Patent Promise for .NET Libraries and Runtime Components
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Microsoft Corporation and its affiliates ("Microsoft") promise not to assert
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any .NET Patents against you for making, using, selling, offering for sale,
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importing, or distributing Covered Code, as part of either a .NET Runtime or
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as part of any application designed to run on a .NET Runtime.
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If you file, maintain, or voluntarily participate in any claim in a lawsuit
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alleging direct or contributory patent infringement by any Covered Code, or
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inducement of patent infringement by any Covered Code, then your rights under
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this promise will automatically terminate.
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This promise is not an assurance that (i) any .NET Patents are valid or
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enforceable, or (ii) Covered Code does not infringe patents or other
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intellectual property rights of any third party. No rights except those
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expressly stated in this promise are granted, waived, or received by
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Microsoft, whether by implication, exhaustion, estoppel, or otherwise.
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This is a personal promise directly from Microsoft to you, and you agree as a
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condition of benefiting from it that no Microsoft rights are received from
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suppliers, distributors, or otherwise from any other person in connection with
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this promise.
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Definitions:
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"Covered Code" means those Microsoft .NET libraries and runtime components as
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made available by Microsoft at https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr,
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https://github.com/dotnet/corefx and https://github.com/dotnet/corert.
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".NET Patents" are those patent claims, both currently owned by Microsoft and
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acquired in the future, that are necessarily infringed by Covered Code. .NET
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Patents do not include any patent claims that are infringed by any Enabling
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Technology, that are infringed only as a consequence of modification of
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Covered Code, or that are infringed only by the combination of Covered Code
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with third party code.
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".NET Runtime" means any compliant implementation in software of (a) all of
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the required parts of the mandatory provisions of Standard ECMA-335 – Common
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Language Infrastructure (CLI); and (b) if implemented, any additional
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functionality in Microsoft's .NET Framework, as described in Microsoft's API
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documentation on its MSDN website. For example, .NET Runtimes include
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Microsoft's .NET Framework and those portions of the Mono Project compliant
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with (a) and (b).
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"Enabling Technology" means underlying or enabling technology that may be
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used, combined, or distributed in connection with Microsoft's .NET Framework
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or other .NET Runtimes, such as hardware, operating systems, and applications
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that run on .NET Framework or other .NET Runtimes. |