Licensing Agreement for VFP

[ron108]

I don't have a VFP 6 or 7 Licensing agreement available. I went to MS Knowledge Base and it was no help.

Where can I go to get this info.

I need to know about distribution of users for VFP.

In the older FoxPro version there was concurrent users licensing. Where the maximum number of users at any one time was how many users the agreement was for. Is this still in effect?

 

[JBalcerzak]

Ron,
Are you talking about the development environment or an app that you are distributing?

 

[ron108]

For the Development Environment

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Ron108

As far as I know.
All you need is developer's license. One per copies of VFP you have running (which you get when you purchase VFP).
As for users its pretty much up to you. Your app as royalty free (unless you wanted to limit the users and create a licensing scheme of your own.).
Mike Gagnon

If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ184-2483 first.

 

[ron108]

THANKS

 

[IoriYagami]

Your app as royalty free (unless you wanted to limit the users and create a licensing scheme of your own.).

Where can i get this information in MS WebSite ? Due to some reason i need the Information from this MS Site. Thank

 

[Mike Gagnon]

The EULA.txt describes the License agreement.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 7\Visual FoxPro 7.0 Professional - English\EULA.txt

Mike Gagnon

If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ184-2483 first.

 

[rgbean]

While Fox Software had a multi-developer license, as far as I remember, MS only honored it for those that upgraded to FPD/FPW 2.6. After Microsoft "merged" with Fox Software, all new FoxPro software was issued with the standard MS developer agreement - one license - one developer. (I also believe that it at one time allowed installation on multiple systems, as long as the developer was only using one copy at the same time. This was so you could buy one copy and work on your "home" computer, and still take it with you on the road.)

Rick

 

[IoriYagami]

Thank for all of yours' clarify.

 

[IoriYagami]

Visual FoxPro ships with a number of redistributable merge modules that can be included in Windows Installer based applications. These merge modules include those for the Visual FoxPro runtime libraries, Activex Controls, and other commonly used shared components. These files are located in your ..\Program Files\Common Files\Merge Modules\ directory. The following list contains many of the MSM files that ship with Visual FoxPro and can be used in your setups

Does this mean that i can't redistributable my VFP runtime library in .dll format ? or is it possible to convert those .msm file to .DLL? If possible then how do i do that ?

 

[Mike Gagnon]

IoriYagami

Does this mean that i can't redistributable my VFP runtime library in .dll format ?

No. It states that The following list contains many of the MSM files that ship with Visual FoxPro and can be used in your setups, which to me means you can use them and install them with your setups.


Mike Gagnon

If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ184-2483 first.

 

[castor2003]

Do I have to pay licensing to Microsoft if I develop and distribute an application?

 

[rgbean]

No! At least not just using VFP!

Rick

 

[castor2003]

rgbean I don't understand your reply. If I design a VFP program and distribute it. Do I have to pay any license to Microsoft for it?

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Castor2003

rgbean I don't understand your reply. If I design a VFP program and distribute it. Do I have to pay any license to Microsoft for it?

No, all you need to do is purchase VFP once, which gives you 1 developer's license. Any application developped in VFP is royalty-free as I stated in a post above.


Mike Gagnon

If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ184-2483 first.

 

[rgbean]

Castor,
My response only meant that if your application is VFP only, you don't have to pay Microsoft anything.

However, if your application uses Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, MapPoint, etc. you may need to purchase additional software or pay royalties to MS.

Rick