Do multiple organizations have to pay the OSMF multiple times for the same product?

[jmairboeck]

Question

We have a bit of a special situation: we ship our WiX based setup to our customer (another company which makes revenue) as an archive containing a few wixlibs (with our files embedded) and build files (a .wixproj file and a generic .wxs source file). This is so they can add additional files (their plugins, documentation and other runtime data) to the package before they ship the final product to the end customers. Do they also have to pay the Open Source Maintenance Fee, if they only use WiX to assemble the final setup package? (i.e. unpack our archive, add their files into the correct folder and run dotnet build)

We (the developers) do already pay the OSMF (as indicated below), but we need it anyway also for other projects.

Open Source Maintenance Fee

• I (or an organization I'm a member of) pay the Open Source Maintenance Fee by sponsoring the wixtoolset project because I support the maintainers.

[robmen]

That is an interesting scenario.

This is so they can add additional files (their plugins, documentation and other runtime data) to the package before they ship the final product to the end customers.

This part says they are using the WiX Toolset to ship their product. Therefore, based on the OSMF EULA, they are required to pay the maintenance fee.