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.