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== History==

Beginning in 2001, [[Microsoft]] announced they would release part of the [[.NET framework]] infrastructure source code in [[Shared source]] through [[C Sharp (programming language)#Standardization|ECMA]], as part of the [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]] and [[Common Language Infrastructure|CLI]] standardization process.<ref>{{cite web

| url=http://ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2001/06/27/dotnet.html

| title=Microsoft Plans Shared Source .NET

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| author=David Sims, [[Tim O'Reilly]], [[Rael Dornfest]]

| date=2001-06-27

| accessdate=2009-09-27}}</ref>.

On March 2002, Microsoft released version 1.0 of the '''Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure''', also called '''Rotor'''.<ref>{{cite web

| url=http://ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/03/04/rotor.html

| title=Uncovering Rotor -- A Shared Source CLI

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| author=Brian Jepson

| date=2002-03-204

| accessdate=2009-09-27}}</ref>. The Shared Source CLI was initially pre-configured to run on [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], but could also be built on [[FreeBSD]] (version 4.7 or newer), and [[Mac OS X]] 10.2. It was designed such that the only thing that needed to be customized to port the Shared Source CLI to a different platform was a thin [[Abstraction layer|Platform Abstraction Layer]] (PAL).

The last 2.0 version of SSCLI was released on March 2006,<ref>{{cite web

| url=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8c09fd61-3f26-4555-ae17-3121b4f51d4d

| title=Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure 2.0 Release

| publisher=[[Microsoft]]

| date=2006-03-23

| accessdate=2009-05-21}}</ref>, and contains most of the classes and features of version 2.0 of the [[.NET Framework]].<ref>{{cite web

| url=http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/kristoferkrause/GuidetoMSsharedSourceCLI11302005232759PM/GuidetoMSsharedSourceCLI.aspx

| title=A Beginner's Guide to Microsoft's shared Source CLI (Rotor)

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| date=2003-05-13

| quote=''Most of the .NET framework class libraries are present except for ADO.NET, Windows Forms, Web Forms, and Web Services. Either you or the Rotor community will have to implement these. On a less painful note, remoting, networking, and XML functionality (and source) are included.''

| accessdate=2008-10-05}}</ref>. Unlike the previous version however, it is only supported on Windows XP SP2. Developers trying to build SSCLI 2.0 on Vista either failed or could not make .NET programs to run correctly, leading some to think that SSCLI would not be updated anymore.<ref>{{cite web

| url=http://msmvps.com/blogs/gbarnett/archive/2008/12/08/shared-source-cli-aka-rotor-on-vista.aspx

| title=Shared Source CLI (aka Rotor) on Vista

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| date=2008-12-08

| quote=''My personal view is that the SSCLI project is doomed to spend the rest of its time only officially supporting that which it did when it was first released. If anyone knows any different then let me know. I couldn’t find any information on the web hinting that it would be updated if only to support Vista.''

| accessdate=2009-05-21}}</ref>.

==License==

The Shared Source CLI use the [[Shared source#Microsoft Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure|Microsoft Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure license]]. This license allows modifications and redistribution of the code for personal or academic usages, but they can't be used for commercial products.<ref>As written in the license, examples of commercial purposes would be running business operations, licensing, leasing, or selling the Software, or distributing the Software for use with commercial products</ref>.

==See also==