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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.

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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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Official website
www.dotgnu.org
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software version identifier
0.8.0
IRC channel URL
irc://irc.freenode.net/#dotgnu
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  • 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.

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