[wix-users] WiX MS-RL license question

fiordean dacian dfiordean at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 12 02:59:47 PDT 2015


Hello
We use WiX Toolset to create our product's MSI and I'm having a question regarding the MS-RL licensing model and in particular the 3.A - Reciprocal Gants.
There is a statement which is aimed to clarify the license here:http://wixtoolset.org/about/license/

If my understanding of the license below is correct, our MSI produced with WiX falls outside MS-RL license:
"OuterCurve Foundation does not view the installer packages generated by WiX as falling within the definition of a derivative work, merely because they are produced using WiX. Thus, the installer packages generated by WiX will normally fall outside the scope of the MS-RL, and any of your source code, binaries, libraries, routines or other software components that are incorporated in installer packages generated by WiX can be governed by other licensing terms"
However, we are using custom actions from the WiX Toolset within the MSI we're producing (i.e. wixca.dll), so this binary code which is part of the WiX Toolset will get distributed with our MSI.
Question is: are we falling within the scope of MS-RL in this case of not? I assume we do, but I ask here for confirmation.
Thanks




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