Selling an ASP.NET Application

[zyman10]

Hi,

I have been learning ASP.NET on and off for a while now and I have created a pretty cool little application in my spare time. I think people might actually buy it if I decide I am going to sell it.

All I used to make it was Visual Web Developer and SQL Express 2005/2008 which are both free.

My question is, if I want to legitimately sell this am I right to assume I will need to pay some licensing fees to microsoft, even if I don't expect any of my customers to ever need to upgrade beyond SQL Express?

I have searched a lot on google and the only conclusive evidence I found was that my customers will need to pay for IIS hosting and the SQL license. Supposedly IIS hosting should only be run on Windows Server machines, and that's where MS gets ya. But I am pretty sure you can do this on Windows XP, Vista and Win 7, so if I go the cheaper route and install SQL Express and IIS on a non-server machine, will this all be legitimate/legal without any fees?

Thanks for any advice.

 

[zyman10]

Woops I posted this in the wrong forums. Sorry, it can be deleted by a mod. I will post it in the ASP forums.

Again, I apologize.

 

[JoeAtWork]

I'm almost sure you don't have to pay any license fees to Microsoft. Remember that .NET itself is free, anyone can download it with Microsoft's blessing. Microsoft's strategy with their free software is the hope that what you create will eventually get complicated (or lucrative) enough that you will want to pay for the full version of Visual Studio and/or SQL Server.

As for licensing fees for IIS and SQL Server, that's not really your problem. You are just selling software, it's up to your customer to have the appropriate licenses. It's the same as if you wrote a Windows application, it's not your responsibility to make sure that everyone using your software has a genuine version of the the operating system.