The first question is who'll maintain copyright. The second is which OSS license you'll want to release it under. (Generally there are two types, permissive and reciprocal )
ISWIX was written on company time at my last job and I had to get them to reassign the intellectual property rights so that the copyright was in my name. Once I had that I published it on CodePlex under the MS-PL license. Some would disagree with me on this and prefer an MS-RL style license to ensure people don't "steel" your code but truthfully I wasn't worried about that. I maintain copyright to ISWIX but license it to all to use. Chris ---------------------------------------- From: robert_y...@agilent.com Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 11:43 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] heat extension - COM exe servers and 64-bit COM support Hi all - about a year ago I wrote a heat extension (based on various code I found on the web) for our internal use which harvests 32-bit COM EXE servers and pre-initializes the registry with the ATL Registrar before harvesting. Lately I updated it with support for 64-bit COM servers (DLL and EXE). I've gotten the go-ahead to clean it up and post it as an open-source project. I need to remove the company-specific namespaces, make things a little more generic, add some better comments, perhaps an architecture doc, etc. My question has to do with the open-source part of it, since I haven't done any of that before. I notice there is a WiX-contrib project on codeplex. Is that a good place to start for something like this ? Thanks for any gotchas, pointers or other info ! -Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
