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Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by LtWorf on Thursday July 24, 2025 @03:57PM (#44675298)
But why call it open source if it's no longer open source?
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Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by nevon on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:11PM (#44675450)
It is open source. The code is still available under the same license as before. They are just charging for binary builds.
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Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by LtWorf on Thursday July 24, 2025 @06:08PM (#44676913)
Oh ok, I had misunderstood then.
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Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by samrus on Thursday July 24, 2025 @05:20PM (#44676324)
They dont charge for the source. They charge for paying more attention to your issues, and for compiling the code for you. If you compile it yourself and do some of the work to resolve the issues (planning or an outright PR) then you wont pay anything
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