[nem-en] RE: Legally Distributing Visual Studio Plugin Source

[Vladimir Morozov]

> NoiseEHC wrote:
> So as I can understand it (the NEW VSIP license) you can distribute> source as long as it is not GPL.> While researching for language service implementation details I found that Craig Skibo, author of Inside Visual Studio 2003 book, published his source code for his IL language service: http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=a8bb2c16-c6b8-471f-b185-79a02ac8e50e
In his Blog he says that he checked with legal department at Microsoft and the new VSIP SDK license "specifically addresses community sharing":
http://blogs.msdn.com/craigskibo/archive/2005/12/07/501208.aspx#comments
So, it seems that community development of VS extensions is OK unless it violates MS license for their sample code and SDK. 
 
-- Vlad 
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