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Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by woodruffw on Thursday July 24, 2025 @09:12AM (#44670274)
I think the distinction being made here is between the source code (which is remaining open source) and the binary (which is effectively becoming proprietary). Users would no longer have a right to redistribute the binary, since it would no longer be open source.

(To my understanding, this is similar to Microsoft’s “trick” for discouraging VS Code forks: VS Code and many of its core extensions are open source, but their builds are not.)

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