Depends on which lawyers you ask but I'd still leave you with my last comment:
"Your stuff is yours but don't steal from the community.
If you improve our stuff, give back."
-----Original Message-----
From: Nicolás Alvarez [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:34 AM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Microsoft Reciprocal License explaination
But if I change something in the WiX toolset and don't distribute the modified
WiX binaries (I only distribute msi packages generated with the modified WiX),
I don't have to distribute the source code to my modifications, do I?
--
Nicolás
2013/11/20 Rob Mensching <[email protected]>:
> If one does not claim the WiX code as part their own stuff (i.e. all the
> copyrights are left in place) and one does not change any code (i.e. WiX code
> is same as code published on WiX toolset site) then from my understanding
> (you'll need to get your own lawyer) they are still complying with MS-RL.
>
> Basically, when one changes something *in* the WiX toolset, those changes
> must be published. Ideally, those changes are provided to the community so
> everyone benefits from work done by volunteers around the world.
>
> Said another way, "Your stuff is yours but don't steal from the community. If
> you improve our stuff, give back."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Painter [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:10 AM
> To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.; General discussion about the
> WiX toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Microsoft Reciprocal License explaination
>
>
>
> The problem is the way they say "normally" not included. Got to love
> lawyers.
>
> FWIW, I get into grey areas with my tool IsWiX. Include very small pieces
> of WiX in my solution ( mainly the use of
> Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller, the inclusion of schema (XSD) files
> for validation and snippets of the help file displayed in the UI to educate
> the developer). I'm not actually making any changes to WiX though.... and I
> want to publish under MS-PL not MS-RL because if anyone ever wants to pick up
> this ball and run with it, I'd be honored.
>
> I can only assume that OuterCurve won't want to waste going after me... there
> isn't any money and I'm not doing anything malicious.
>
> ----------------------------------------
> From: "Rob Mensching" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 9:01 PM
> To: "General discussion about the WiX toolset."
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Microsoft Reciprocal License explaination
>
> http://wixtoolset.org/about/license/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicolás Alvarez [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 6:48 AM
> To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Microsoft Reciprocal License explaination
>
> 2013/11/19 Joe Dimagio <[email protected]>:
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I'm doing some research to see if WiX is right for my corporation to use.
>>
>> Reading the MS RL, it looks like if I distribute my product using
>> WiX, I need to include my source files including the wxs, wxl, wxi,
>> wixproj, as well as my own product's source code as well. Is this
>> correct? I'm not a lawyer but this seems like an all encompassing
>> license that seems pretty prohibitive for a company to use if I'm reading it
>> correct.
>
> No, not at all. That would be like saying that using an open source compiler
> means you have to distribute your source code if you compiled your binaries
> with it, or that you have to distribute your code if you used an open source
> text editor to write it; none of that makes sense.
> The license only affects WiX, not what you generate with it.
>
> However, I would like some clarifications from the developers about code from
> WiX that gets embedded into the final msi, especially the "standard custom
> actions". I think that code should be explicitly under a more liberal
> license...
>
> --
> Nicolás
>
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