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HTML Help Workshop is not available anymore, can I host it?
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Apparently Microsoft just dropped the website that had HTML Help Workshop for download. But it is the only tool that fully properly generates .chm help files and I need it in one of my workflows in a CI system - right now things started to fail because the download vanished.

License wise, would I be violating anything if instead of downloading from Microsoft I downloaded from my own file host to run it? My file host would be exposed in the internet and I would not block people downloading it outside of my CI system if they wanted.

For reference, Microsoft's website download for HTML Help Workshop used to be here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21138&ved=2ahUKEwi0_bGLxr_uAhWFB9QKHcUdCxIQFjAUegQIURAB&usg=AOvVaw1_oaw66rS-7sanf8ov-cbb

Other related websites, but the downloads are 404 now:

https://download.microsoft.com/download/0/A/9/0A939EF6-E31C-430F-A3DF-DFAE7960D564/htmlhelp.exe

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/htmlhelp/microsoft-html-help-downloads

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/htmlhelp/microsoft-html-help-1-4-sdk

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