Microsoft does copyright assignments for all contributions to WiX so they are in fact the sole contributor in the context of this license. I believe the process would be fat chance in hell but only Rob could speak to any possiblity of negotiating this. I know that the my internal group that I mentioned earlier has on occasion forced vendors to negotiate different terms and licenses so it's not impossible, just extremely difficutl.
I had to deal with this extensively this year because my very own open source project IsWiX actually was born as an internal research and development activity at my company and I had to negotiate with them to assign all of the IP to me so that I could release it as open source and then license it back to them. Very complicated stuff licensing can be. Chris ----- Original Message ---- From: James Poole <w...@slowcommotion.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thu, August 26, 2010 9:57:53 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX Licensing Apparently my company is OK with the Eclipse Public License but not the Common Public License, and the only change between the two is the removal of this sentence in section 7: *"If Recipient institutes patent litigation against a Contributor with respect to a patent applicable to software (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit), then any patent licenses granted by that Contributor to such Recipient under this Agreement shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed." *Other companies apparently did have issues with this part of the CPL which is why the Eclipse foundation created an updated version. My question is this: Is Microsoft still the ultimate decision maker when it comes to what license this is released under? What would the process be for having this get released under a newer open source license? -James On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Christopher Painter < chr...@deploymentengineering.com> wrote: > That's interesting. I also work for a very large software company and we > have > a highly formal process for evaluating tools with a group of people that > study > these things in extreme detail and while I did have to jump through some > compliance hoops ( for example we did Fortify security scans and I had to > track > down any false positives with the help of Rob to justify the alerts ) > nobody > made any such statement about the EULA. I'm suspecting the person who made > this > decision is misinformed but unless we know there exact complaints it's hard > to > address them. > > Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog > Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves > attention? E-Mail Me > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: James Poole <w...@slowcommotion.com> > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Wed, August 25, 2010 2:20:37 PM > Subject: [WiX-users] WIX Licensing > > I just sat through a meeting at my employer for the last 3 months (a > significantly large software company) who told me the CPL license WIX is > released under was too restrictive to allow me to use it as a development > tool. Of course I just spent the last 2 months porting a horrific > InstallShield installer to WIX... > > Is there any chance this license will ever get updated to a more recent > open > source license (CPL is sooo 2001). > > Or is there any way for me to purchase WIX under a different license? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program > Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users > worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and > speed time-to-market. 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