Using Nlite in the Enterprise

[Scotte]

Hi there. I searched the forum for topic references but found little to nothing on this subject.

Question - We have a customer who requested a managed BDD solution. One of our engineers spent three days creating a few images for them for public kiosks and desktops / laptops, and used the Nlite application. ( We checked, it is free ware and nothing in the terms or conditions say that it cant be used for organisations. Plus if it does good then we sing about it, spread the word and more people use it, making it better known and hopefully draw more users to the application. thus promoting the creators)

Now the problem us that the manager there is saying that Nlite is a Beta tool ( She read the comments on the Wiki page ) and shouldn't be used in the enterprise, and essentially want to pull out of the agreement saying we did not provide to them what they initially requested. Despite the fact the process works and they have desktops build with the tool.

What I need to show the user is that Nlite is an acceptable tool. and hopefully cite others who have used this as a consolidation tool before deployment.

Has anyone used Nlite in the enterprise ? or for large scale deployments ?

[AgiHammerklau]

Nlite is freeware, but you should have read the licence agreement before you accepted it !

Especially point 1 and 5.

LICENSE AGREEMENT:

Your use of nLite is governed by the following conditions. Please read this information carefully before using nLite. By using it you are agreeing to the following conditions:

1. nLite is freeware and can be freely used for any personal non-commercial purposes, subject to the following restrictions.

2. nLite can be only distributed electronically through the official host www.nliteos.com. Distribution through other websites or in any other form without the author's permission is prohibited.

For distribution through free CD/DVD Magazine addon contact the author for permission.

3. nLite is supplied "as-is". The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of nLite.

4. Import Restrictions. International users also check any import restrictions that your government may impose. Reread eula.txt in your Windows\System32 folder.

5. nLite is free for personal use only, you cannot use it for any company or business purposes at this time.

6. MCDBNET2.dll is registered on me (the nLite author) with the royalty-free license and can be distributed only bundled with nLite.

7. nLite is a copyrighted material of Dino Nuhagic aka nuhi. You may not decompile, disassemble or otherwise reverse engineer this product. You may not include the parts of nLite in your software without the author's permission. You may not alter or modify nLite in any way or create a new installer for it.

Copyright © 2004-2006, Dino Nuhagic aka nuhi

Agi

[Scotte]

Bugger,

My sincere apologies,

I shall withdraw it straight away and delete all instances.

[AgiHammerklau]

For those purposes there still is the commercial tool XPlite.

It´s not as comfortable as nlite, but pretty usable.

Agi

[Silvereyes]

The main different is that nLite is a pre-installation customization

tool while XPLite is a post installation configuration tool.

It's also very expensive unless you're buying 100+ units.