WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee

Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by robmensching on Thursday July 24, 2025 @08:48PM (#44678192)

Note that the package.lock file is not the place to look for your OSMF dependencies. That file will list your project's dependencies and all of their dependencies and so on and so on. You want to look at the list of packages in your package.json file. That will almost certainly be an order of magnitude (or two) smaller.

For example, IIRC, GitHub (all of GitHub) calculated they had 660 direct dependencies. That's still a lot but it's not 9400. :)

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Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by kvemkon on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @03:28AM (#44720193)

OSMF could got name like WiX Toolset Maintenance Fee. Similar to how the Apache License got its name.

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Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by robmensching on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @07:16PM (#44740668)

Why? It's not specific to the WiX Toolset at all. Other projects can (and some have) adopt the Open Source Maintenance Fee with no changes (or they can change if if they want).

WiX is just the first project to use the OSMF because I need a project to "debug" an issues in OSMF system. As we get all the issues resolved, we may see the OSMF be adopted widely... or not.

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