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Line 1: {{Short description\|~~Technical~~Open ~~standard~~specification for runtime environments}} {{Infobox technology standard \| title = Common Language Infrastructure Line 42: In August 2000, [[Microsoft]], [[Hewlett-Packard]], [[Intel]], and others worked to standardize CLI. By December 2001, it was ratified by the [[Ecma International\|Ecma]], with [[International Organization for Standardization\|ISO]]/[[International Electrotechnical Commission\|IEC]] standardization following in April 2003. Microsoft and its partners hold patents for CLI. Ecma and ISO/IEC require that all patents essential to implementation be made available under "[[Reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing\|reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) terms]]." It is common for RAND licensing to require some royalty payment, which could be a cause for concern with [[Mono (software)\|Mono]]. As{{as of \|2013\|January ~~2013~~}}, neither Microsoft nor its partners have identified any patents essential to CLI implementations subject to RAND terms.{{cn\|date=October 2024}} As{{as of \|2009\|July ~~2009~~}},<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://port25.technet.com/archive/2009/07/06/the-ecma-c-and-cli-standards.aspx \|title=The Ecma C# and CLI Standards