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+Microsoft Patent Promise for Mono
+
+Microsoft Corporation and its affiliates (“Microsoft”) promise not to
+assert any Applicable Patents against you for making, using, selling,
+offering for sale, importing, or distributing Mono.
+
+If you file, maintain, or voluntarily participate in any claim in a
+lawsuit alleging direct or contributory patent infringement by Mono,
+or inducement of patent infringement by Mono, then your rights under
+this promise will automatically terminate.
+
+This promise is not an assurance that (i) any Applicable Patents are
+valid or enforceable or (ii) Mono does not infringe patents or other
+intellectual property rights of any third party. No rights except
+those expressly stated in this promise are granted, waived or received
+by Microsoft, whether by implication, exhaustion, estoppel or
+otherwise. This is a personal promise directly from Microsoft to you,
+and you agree as a condition of benefitting from it that no Microsoft
+rights are received from suppliers, distributors, or otherwise in
+connection with this promise.
+
+Definitions:
+
+“Mono” means those portions of the software development technology, as
+originally distributed by Xamarin, Inc. or the .NET Foundation under
+the name “Mono,” that implement .NET Framework Functionality, provided
+that such portions at a minimum implement all of the required parts of
+the mandatory provisions of Standard ECMA-335 – Common Language
+Infrastructure (CLI).
+
+“.NET Framework Functionality” means any functionality in Microsoft’s
+.NET Framework as described in Microsoft’s API documentation on
+Microsoft’s MSDN website, including the functionality in
+Windowsbase.dll, but excluding all other functionality in the Windows
+Presentation Foundation component of .NET Framework.
+
+“Applicable Patents” are those patent claims, currently owned by
+Microsoft and acquired in the future, that are necessarily infringed
+by Mono. For clarity, Applicable Patents do not include any patent
+claims that are infringed (x) by any underlying or enabling technology
+that may be used, combined, or distributed in connection with Mono
+(such as hardware, operating systems, or applications that run on
+Mono), (y) only as a consequence of modification of Mono, or (z) only
+by the combination of Mono with third party code.