Re: RC3: what's in/out

I'd love to see AW included, but we might have an issue. ActiveWriter source is Apache licensed, but binary release includes DSL Tools redistributable (must), which is under MS' VSIP SDK License. So I licensed the whole setup as "As Is" with the notification below. VSIP SDK allows you to release your code under an OSS license but I'm not sure if we can tag the install binaries as Apache v2. If we can (while stating the exceptional binaries and their license), I can convert it from as is to Apache v2.

VS2008 will have DSL Tools redist (since Linq to SQL also uses it.) and problem will go away, though.

ActiveWriter Binaries License:

Except where otherwise noted, all of the documentation and software included

in the ActiveWriter package distributed in binary form is copyrighted by Gokhan Altinoren.

Copyright (C) 2006 Gokhan Altinoren. All rights reserved.

This software is provided "as-is," without any express or implied warranty.

In no event shall the author be held liable for any damages arising from the

use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose and to redistribute source code generated by the tool or binaries compiled from that source code, provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Your usage of the software must not violate Microsoft Visual Studio SDK license.

2. All redistributions in binary form must retain all occurrences of the

   above copyright notice and web site addresses that are currently in

   place (for example, in the Readme document).

3. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not

   claim that you wrote the original software, or rename the binaries. If you use this software to

   distribute a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation

   would be appreciated but is not required.

Exceptions:

The following files included in ActiveWriter installation distributed in binaries form are subject to the Microsoft Visual Studio SDK License (
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/extend) (the SDK License):

·
         DSLToolsRedist.msi

·         
Setup.exe

You are required to agree to terms that protect above items explained in the SDK License mentioned above.