[wix-users] WiX MS-RL license question

[Christopher Painter]

I'm not a lawyer either. Consider the ramifications if any development tools company ever tried to say something compiled by them was covered by their license.  I don't think many people would use that tool anymore.

It gets a little greyer for me.  IsWiX contains a handful of WiX files  (primarily DTF interop and XSD docs).   Since I'm also a FOSS project and don't have a lawyer I'll just assume we are all good until Rob ever complains.  In that case I'll simply remove bits from the installer and have the application fetch them from an installed instance of WiX.   That would be unfortunate since technically IsWiX can be used without having WiX installed just as WiX generated by IsWiX can be built without having IsWiX installed.  I like to keep my software loosely coupled that way. :)


________________________________________
From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf of Hoover, Jacob <Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com>
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 10:28 AM
To: fiordean dacian; WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: [wix-users] WiX MS-RL license question

IANL,
  But if you are using them in an unaltered fashion than the spirit of the license is that you are not bound by it.  If however, you make modifications/improvements/enhancements to those WiX CA"s, then they should be submitted back to WiX in a pull request.  I find it easiest, since I do extend/modify the functionality, to fork and publish my code on github, and I am an active contributor to WiX, which from my understanding meets the requirements of the license.

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of fiordean dacian
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 5:00 AM
To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
Subject: [wix-users] WiX MS-RL license question

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



____________________________________________________________________
WiX Toolset Users Mailing List provided by FireGiant http://www.firegiant.com/

____________________________________________________________________
WiX Toolset Users Mailing List provided by FireGiant http://www.firegiant.com/