Salamander Legal?

Carl mentioned Salamander in his comments on Roy's flame. Looks like a very cool tool (allows you to run .NET apps on machines without .NET installed). However, I just have to ask, can someone from MS tell us if it is actually legal to use this tool?

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  • Because you are in effect redistributing portions of Microsoft's runtime with your program, but not using Microsoft's redistributable package. Normally, something like that would not be legal.

  • A legitimate question. We're going to have the author of this tool and other interesting tools on his site (look at octopuss) on the show in a few weeks. Email us some questions for him.



    I happened on his site by accident while I was testing an obfuscation tool. After 'unobfuscating' a relatively complex routine, I felt like I could have reproduced the functionality of that routine from the resulting C# output with some work.



    Since I'm working on some software that will ship around November, I'm a bit worried about securing it from a competitor.



    Cheers,



    -Mark




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