Date: 10/04/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

The Reference License lets you look at the code, but you can't redistribute it, and you can't modify it. It is, as these esteemed analysts note, a way of putting developers on notice that if anything they write (for, say Mono) Microsoft's lawyers will come down like a ton of bricks.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/164956153/