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Details about msitools and download resources can be found under https://wiki.gnome.org/msitools.

1999 Patrick Stridvall

2002 Alexander Julliard

2002-2006 Mike McCormack for CodeWeavers

2005 Aric Stewart for CodeWeavers

2007 Robert Shearman for CodeWeavers

2007-2008 James Hawkins

2010 Hans Leidekker for CodeWeavers

2011 Berhard Loos

License: LGPL-2.1+

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1'.

Files:

libmsi/tokenize.c

tools/sqldelim.*

License: DISCLAIMED

The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing:

May you do good and not evil.

May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.

May you share freely, never taking more than you give.

Files:

tools/msidiff.in

tools/msidump.in

tools/msibuild.c

tools/msiinfo.c

data/wxi-validate.pl

2004-2010 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>

2012-2020 Red Hat, Inc.

2010 Hans Leidekker for CodeWeavers

License: GPL-2+

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License Version 2 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.

Files:

build-aux/git-version-gen

2007-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

License: GPL-3+

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License Version 3 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.

Files:

data/ext/ui/*

License: MS-RL

This license governs use of the accompanying software. If you use the software, you accept this license. If you do not accept the license, do not use the software.

1.Definitions
The terms "reproduce," "reproduction," "derivative works," and "distribution" have the same meaning here as under U.S. copyright law. A "contribution" is the original software, or any additions or changes to the software. A "contributor" is any person that distributes its contribution under this license. "Licensed patents" are a contributor's patent claims that read directly on its contribution.

2.Grant of Rights

(A) Copyright Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to reproduce its contribution, prepare derivative works of its contribution, and distribute its contribution or any derivative works that you create.

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3. Conditions and Limitations

(A) Reciprocal Grants- For any file you distribute that contains code from the software (in source code or binary format), you must provide recipients the source code to that file along with a copy of this license, which license will govern that file. You may license other files that are entirely your own work and do not contain code from the software under any terms you choose.

(B) No Trademark License- This license does not grant you rights to use any contributors' name, logo, or trademarks.

(C) If you bring a patent claim against any contributor over patents that you claim are infringed by the software, your patent license from such contributor to the software ends automatically.

(D) If you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the software.

(E) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of this license with your distribution. If you distribute any portion of the software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under a license that complies with this license.

(F) The software is licensed "as-is." You bear the risk of using it. The contributors give no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws which this license cannot change. To the extent permitted under your local laws, the contributors exclude the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

Comment:

Note on license compatibility from Paolo Bonzini: the MS-RL-licensed .wxs files are only ever compiled by wixl, and never mix with C or Vala sources in a single derivative binary. Therefore, MS-RL's GPL- and LGPL-incompatibility is not an issue for the purpose of distributing msitools itself.

MS-RL derivatives may end up in the same .msi files as incompatibly-licensed binaries provided by the end user of msitools, but that should not be a problem either: the GPLed binaries are essentially data as far as the installer is concerned, and the installer tables are not used by the GPLed binaries either. Therefore, this should count as mere aggregation, and mere aggregation in the same file shouldn't be a problem because the structure of the OLE compound document keeps the parts separate. It's basically the same that happens when you download an ISO full of RPM packages, since the OLE compound document can be considered a file system just as much as ISO9660 can.

However, we will have to be careful if msitools grows more XML sources that will be compiled by wixl. Such files may not be licensed under GPL or LGPL. This is not a problem; for such files it does make sense to use the MIT license or the MS-RL to facilitate interoperability with WIX.