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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks for the shout-out, Curt! This is a pretty proud day for us; we’ve been working on Sho for five years and are finally releasing it to the public
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> The official web site is
<a href="http://research.microsoft.com/sho">http://research.microsoft.com/sho</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The license allows for use non-commercial purposes, which includes academic, personal, and internal use by a commercial entity. You can read the whole license
<a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/bc38771b-dc48-475b-8d18-7fe87e1bc2a1/Sho%20License%20Agreement%20(2010-11-03)%20FINAL.rtf">
here</a> , but I’ve copied one bit below which I think might help explain about use by commercial entities:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">“You may use, copy, reproduce, and distribute this Software for any non-commercial purpose, subject to the restrictions in this Agreement. Some
purposes which can be non-commercial are teaching, academic research, public demonstrations and personal experimentation. For clarity, internal use by a commercial entity is considered a non-commercial purpose and is permitted under this Agreement.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">In other words, commercial entities can use Sho internally, but can’t ship the bits externally for commercial purposes (more detail on what this means exactly and
other aspects in the license itself).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">-Sumit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Curt Hagenlocher<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 26, 2011 11:23 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Discussion of IronPython<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [IronPython] Sho<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>I thought the people on this list might be interested in the following IronPython-based tooling for technical computing:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/gg585581.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/gg585581.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Disclaimer: I'm not sure what the license is.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>-Curt<o:p></o:p></p>
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