[ros-kernel] Microsoft releases software under an OSI apporvedlicense

[Nate DeSimone]

It is actually in source forge...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/


Waldo Alvarez Cañizares wrote:

>Hi:
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>OK it is not in sourceforge. Where is it? CVS? Another thing there is a program that is GPL for Linux search sourceforge.net it dumps content to XML and recompiles .msi from that XML I don't remember the name of the project, I'll look at home, I downloaded the sources some time ago and I have it on my ReactOS directory. 
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>Best Regards
>Waldo Alvarez
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>From: ros-kernel-bounces at reactos.com on behalf of Stefan Pflüger
>Sent: Wed 4/7/2004 6:33 AM
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>Subject: Re: [ros-kernel] Microsoft releases software under an OSI apporvedlicense
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>On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 15:14:55 +0200
>"KJK::Hyperion" <noog at libero.it> wrote:
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>>At 19.37 05/04/2004, you wrote:
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>>>Today on slashdot I came across an article saying the Microsoft was
>>>released the tool that they use to develop their Windows Installer files
>>>(.msi) as an open source project under the IBM Common Public License.
>>>Would anything in this project be of use to the ReactOS project?
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>>definitely! it would be a *great* build tool to make MSI packages of
>>ReactOS components. Looks easy to integrate in any build environment, too,
>>as it follows exactly the same design of most compilers
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>Be careful when "integrating" this, it's not GPL but CPL, CPL is incompatible
>to GPL...
>Nonetheless just using it as a build env tool should be no problem in the
>FSFs view.
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