Question

I’m building an app that will be used by “anyone”.

It depends on the WCF REST Starter Kit, specifically the Microsoft.Http.dll and Microsoft.Http.Extensions.dll assemblies.

Can I (legally) redistribute these DLLs?

I am thinking I could just copy them into the bin directory with all the other assemblies for the app. Sound right?

Answer 1

Did you read the License document on that site?

http://aspnet.codeplex.com/license

The pertinent part:

“Reference use” means use of the
software within your company as a
reference, in read only form, for the
sole purposes of debugging your
products, maintaining your products,
or enhancing the interoperability of
your products with the software, and
specifically excludes the right to
distribute the software outside of
your company.

Once it is released, then I expect there would be a ‘redistributable’ package you can distribute with your application.