The Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure (SSCLI), previously codenamed Rotor, is

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implementation of the

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, the core of .NET. Although the SSCLI is not suitable for commercial use due to its license, it does make it possible for programmers to examine the implementation details of many .NET libraries and to create modified CLI versions. Microsoft provides the Shared Source CLI as a reference CLI implementation suitable for educational use.

History

Beginning in 2001,

announced they would release part of the

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infrastructure source code in

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through ECMA, as part of the C# and

standardization process. In March 2002, Microsoft released version 1.0 of the Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure, also called Rotor. The Shared Source CLI was initially pre-configured to run on

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, but could also be built on

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(version 4.7 or newer), and

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10.2. It was designed such that the only thing that needed to be customized to port the Shared Source CLI to a different platform was a thin Platform Abstraction Layer (PAL). The last 2.0 version of SSCLI was released in March 2006, and contains most of the classes and features of version 2.0 of the

. SSCLI 2.0 can be downloaded directly from Microsoft downloads and requires

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and

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running on

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to compile. Microsoft has not updated the source and build requirements since 2006. Even Microsoft MVPs, important part of Microsoft community ecosystem, complained about the lack of support for other Visual Studio versions and operating systems. However, a non-official patch for

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was provided by a Microsoft employee in the

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and another for

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was released by the community. Later versions of .NET, originally known as .NET Core and now referred to simply as .NET, have been open sourced under the more permissive

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License

The Shared Source CLI use the non-free Microsoft Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure license. This license allows modifications and redistribution of the code for personal or academic usages, but they can't be used for commercial products.As written in the license, examples of commercial purposes would be running business operations, licensing, leasing, or selling the Software, or distributing the Software for use with commercial products

References

External links

* Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure 1.0 Release: * Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure 2.0 Release:
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Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure The Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure (SSCLI), previously codenamed Rotor, is Microsoft's shared source implementation of the CLI, the core of .NET. Although the SSCLI is not suitable for commercial use due to its license, it does mak ...

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History

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