Program: Inno Setup
License:
Inno Setup License ================== Except where otherwise noted, all of the documentation and software included in the Inno Setup package is copyrighted by Jordan Russell. Copyright (C) 1997-2009 Jordan Russell. 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, including commercial applications, and to alter and redistribute it, provided that the following conditions are met: 1. All redistributions of source code files must retain all copyright notices that are currently in place, and this list of conditions without modification. 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 About boxes). 3. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software to distribute a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required. 4. Modified versions in source or binary form must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software. Jordan Russell jr-2008 AT jrsoftware.org http://www.jrsoftware.org
Description: Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs. First introduced in 1997, Inno Setup today rivals and even surpasses many commercial installers in feature set and stability.
Website: http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
This has been asked for in the past, and was denied on a licensing technicality.
Now that we do freeware, it's worth another look.
Ideally, we could portableize the QuickStart Pack, which includes ISTool and the Inno Setup Prepacker.
Technical license issue indeed. I thought this license was even more liberal than GPL. For me personally it always spelled open source software. And its a good installer written in... Delphi It supports Pascal scripting and its a very useful tool!
It may be a 'technicality' to some, but it's not open source and because of the advertising clause (which disqualifies it for OSI compatiblity), the InnoSetup code can't be used under any open source license. So, while the source is available, you can't use it in other apps and release the combination under an OSI license as it's incompatible with the GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT, etc.
That said, we could package it as freeware with permission.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!