To build NServiceBus just open NServiceBus.sln in Visual Studio.

Note that the debug build doesn't ilmerge and if you plan to use the binaries in test/production you need to do a release build.

You'll find the built assemblies in /binaries.

If you see the build failing, check that you haven't put the source of NServiceBus in a deep subdirectory since long path names (greater than 248 characters) aren't supported by MSBuild.

To run NServiceBus, please download and install the setup file from http://particular.net/downloads

NHibernate is licensed under the LGPL v2.1 license as described here:

http://www.hibernate.org/license.html

NHibernate binaries are merged into NServiceBus allowed under the LGPL license terms found here:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt

Iesi.Collections binaries are merged into NServiceBus allowed under the license terms found here:

Copyright 2002-2004 by Aidant Systems, Inc., and by Jason Smith.

Copied from http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/sets.asp#xx703510xx that was posted by JasonSmith 12:13 2 Jan '04

Feel free to use this code any way you want to. As a favor to me, you can leave the copyright in there. You never know when someone might recognize your name!

If you do use the code in a commercial product, I would appreciate hearing about it. This message serves as legal notice that I won't be suing you for royalties! The code is in the public domain.

On the other hand, I don't provide support. The code is actually simple enough that it shouldn't need it.

Autofac is licensed under the MIT license as described here.

Autofac binaries are linked into the NServiceBus distribution allowed under the license terms found here.

Spring.NET is licensed under the Apache license version 2.0 as described here

Spring.NET binaries are merged into NServiceBus allowed under the license terms found here.

Common.Logging is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 as described here.

Common.Logging binaries are merged into NServiceBus allowed under the LGPL license terms found here.

StructureMap is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 as described here.

StructureMap binaries are linked into the NServiceBus distribution allowed under the license terms found here.

Castle is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 as described here.

Castle binaries are linked into the NServiceBus distribution allowed under the license terms found here.

Unity is licensed under the MSPL license as described here.

Unity binaries are linked into the NServiceBus distribution allowed under the license terms described above.

Log4Net is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 as described here.

Log4Net binaries are linked into the NServiceBus distribution allowed under the license terms described above.

TopShelf is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 as described here:

TopShelf binaries are merged into NServiceBus as allowed under the license terms described here.

RavenDB is under both a OSS and a commercial license described here.

The commercial version can be used free of charge for NServiceBus specific storage needs like:

Subscriptions, Sagas, Timeouts, etc

Application specific use requires a paid RavenDB license

RavenDB binaries are linked into the NServiceBus distribution allowed under the license terms described above.

ActiveMQ is licensed under the Apache 2.0 licence as described here.

The ActiveMQ client is referenced by NServiceBus

Taken from rhino-esb under this license