DotGNU
Sign in to saveDotGNU is a decommissioned part of the GNU Project that started in January 2001 and aimed to provide a free software replacement for Microsoft's .NET Framework. The DotGNU project was run by the Free Software Foundation. Other goals of the project are better support for non-Windows platforms and support for more processors.
Key facts
- Software.logo
- dotgnu-small.png
- Software.logo size
- 240px
- Software.developer
- Rhys Weatherly (Southern Storm Software Pty), Klaus Treichel, Thong Nguyen, Gopal V, Norbert Bollow
- Software.latest release version
- 0.8.0
- Software.programming language
- C, C#
- Software.operating system
- Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, Microsoft Windows, others
- Software.genre
- System platform
- Software.license
- GPL and LGPL
- Software.discontinued
- yes
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Main development projects
- Portable.NET
- DGEE
- libJIT
- Framework architecture
- Free software
- DotGNU and Microsoft's patents
- See also
- References
- External links
DotGNU is a decommissioned part of the GNU Project that started in January 2001 and aimed to provide a free software replacement for Microsoft's .NET Framework. The DotGNU project was run by the Free Software Foundation. Other goals of the project are better support for non-Windows platforms and support for more processors.
The main goal of the DotGNU project code base was to provide a class library that is 100% Common Language Specification (CLS) compliant.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “DotGNU” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.