Re: [WiX-users] Microsoft Reciprocal License explaination

2013-11-20 Thread Walt Dexter
Considering local internal changes to WiX a competitive advantage seems indicative of a marginal business plan at best. More likely is the opposite. If I were to modify it for internal use I would have no idea how to get authorization to do so, and nobody would be willing to figure it out. O

Re: [WiX-users] Microsoft Reciprocal License explaination

2013-11-20 Thread Bruce Cran
On 11/20/2013 8:52 AM, John Ludlow wrote: > The only reason I can see not to do this is because it depends on > proprietary code, which either has no use outside your environment, or is > considered part of your own product and can't be distributed. Or if you think the changes are so awesome you w

Re: [WiX-users] Microsoft Reciprocal License explaination

2013-11-20 Thread John Ludlow
If you modify WiX itself, then I'd argue that it's actually in your best interest to contribute the changes back anyway, regardless of whether you distribute those binaries. That way, they can be included in future versions of WiX and you don't have to re-apply the changes every time you upgrade th