Clear license violation on Cecil and Log4Net

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  Could you be more explicit about what the violations are?

  mb April 11, 2011 16:27

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  I am glad to... however it is pretty obvious for the community.
  
  Cecil is under MIT/X11 which means any work uses it must under the same license and include the exact same license text. Part of license text:
  
  ...Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
  in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
  to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
  copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
  furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
  
  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
  all copies or substantial portions of the Software...
  
  ***

  redgate April 17, 2011 03:32

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  I don't have a copy of Reflector anymore, but my recollection is that the Cecil copyright/notice is part of the Reflector installation. That's all that the license requires.
  
  From Cecil's FAQ:
  

  Can I use Cecil is my closed source proprietary application?
  
  Short answer: yes. You can read Cecil’s License.

  
  Cecil's license page says:
  

  The MIT/X11 is a permissive license, which is GPL compatible, and allows usage within proprietary software as long as this license is distributed along with the software.

  mb April 18, 2011 16:37

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  Also, to actually break Cecil's license, .NET Reflector would have to actually use Cecil.

  MulleDK19 April 22, 2011 13:20

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  MulleDK19 wrote:

  Also, to actually break Cecil's license, .NET Reflector would have to actually use Cecil.

  
  Hmm - interesting (a little bit anyway). Reflector had the Cecil license file in its installation. I guess I just assumed that meant it used Cecil. In any case, I don't have a Reflector install at the moment, so I can't recheck (not that it really matters).

  mb April 26, 2011 13:27

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  mb wrote:

  MulleDK19 wrote:

  Also, to actually break Cecil's license, .NET Reflector would have to actually use Cecil.

  
  Hmm - interesting (a little bit anyway). Reflector had the Cecil license file in its installation. I guess I just assumed that meant it used Cecil. In any case, I don't have a Reflector install at the moment, so I can't recheck (not that it really matters).

  
  .NET Reflector only references log4net. Which it includes the license notice for (See log4net_LICENSE.txt). So that renders this topic invalid.

  MulleDK19 April 26, 2011 15:00

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