[ros-kernel] Microsoft releases software underan OSI apporvedlicense

[Nate DeSimone]

They have a CVS tree with the source code, and I saw this file released 
by the project on April 5th:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105970


Waldo Alvarez Cañizares wrote:

>I know. In slashdot is the link.
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>This project has not released any files.
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>Hmm..
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>Regards
>Waldo
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>From: ros-kernel-bounces at reactos.com on behalf of Nate DeSimone
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>It is actually in source forge...
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>http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/
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>Waldo Alvarez Cañizares wrote:
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>>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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