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Frank Prengel, Developer Evangelist at Microsoft wrote a clear anwer [1] to the question:
"Am I allowed to publish Silverlight 1.1 application on my website today?".
The answer is "No!". Not for commercial and not for non-commercial
purpose. Even not for demonstration purposes. This act violates clearly the EULA (End
User License Agreement) that you agreed before downloading the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha
release.
Why is that? Silverlight 1.1 alpha is a developer preview build provided to you for
testing purpose to empower you to build applications before the software is being
released publicly. Same as with MSDN subscription and software licenses available
for internal development test purposes.
All Silverlight 1.1 applications available today on the internet are violating the
EULA and are illegal. There are some exceptions to this global rule but as always
these are the exceptions that prove the rule. So be careful about that. ;-)
The first non-commercial "Go Live License" for Silverlight
1.1 application will be available after the MIX08 [2] in March 2008 according
to Tim Sneath "...We'll also have a non-commercial go live license ready by then..."
[2].
As for the INETA European Silverlight Challenge - we are compliant to the requirement
not to host the Silverlight 1.1 applications publicly before MIX.
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