Re: [WiX-users] Wix Licensing revisited

2012-02-27 Thread Bob Arnson
On 27-Feb-12 11:29, Rob Mensching wrote: > I am not a lawyer so my comments cannot provide you legal advice but my > legally uneducated understanding of the license is that the output of the > tools is not OSS. Of course, any use of a WiX extension or Burn includes code licensed under the CPL...

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Licensing revisited

2012-02-27 Thread Rob Mensching
I am not a lawyer so my comments cannot provide you legal advice but my legally uneducated understanding of the license is that the output of the tools is not OSS. Our *intention* is that if you change the code in our repository, that needs to be released (back to us hopefully). If you create your

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Licensing revisited

2012-02-27 Thread Christopher Painter
I'd suggest that your boss talk to his own retained or internal counsel. It's prima facie case to me that the license of a compiler doesn't transfer to the built object code format of your IP. However, I'm not in the business, nor do I imagine the WiX team is in the business, of giving legal