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Asked: 2026-05-12T10:02:39+00:00

Like everybody else on this planet, I am currently working on a blogging engine

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Like everybody else on this planet, I am currently working on a blogging engine using ASP.NET MVC .

I am planning to make this open source under GPL, with a requirement that people already have ASP.NET 3.5 already installed on their machines. Let us say that they do not already have ASP.NET MVC installed (on a shared host)

But, I would like them to host my application inspite of that.

I found this interesting post here by Haack http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/03/bin-deploy-aspnetmvc.aspx, which suggests to include the below references in Bin directory

  • System.Web.Mvc
  • System.Web.Routing
  • System.Web.Abstractions

My question is, Is it legal for me to include these assemblies in the bin directory when sharing the application?

Thanks,
Chandra

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes it is. These are redistributable assemblies.

    The license is MS-PL, an open source license from Microsoft that allows redistribution.

    http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/04/01/asp-net-mvc-1-0.aspx

    The only catch is that it’s not compatible with GPL, so you may want to think of using a different open source license for your project.

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