Question

This is fairly simply question but I can’t find the answer to it –

Has the ASP.NET MVC framework been open source since beta, or was the Codeplex source only published when it was a release candidate?

Answer 1

I’ll quote from this page of ScottGu

Two weeks ago at MIX we released ASP.NET MVC 1.0.

and

I’m excited today to announce that we are also releasing the ASP.NET
MVC source code under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL). MS-PL is
an OSI-approved open source license. The MS-PL contains no platform
restrictions and provides broad rights to modify and redistribute the
source code. You can read the text of the MS-PL at:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ms-pl.html

dated April 01, 2009

so they released the source 2 weeks after releasing the 1.0 🙂

(let me google it for you: mvc asp.net license)