Licensing

Folks,

A prime advantage of Fox has always been its licensing policy. Once you
purchased the original development edition you could produce
applications which would run free of any extra charges (royalty free).

My impression is that this has changed in the more recent versions. I
haven't been able to find the information on the official MS site.

Is my summary of VFP licensing correct? Are there changes? If so, what
are the new restrictions?

There is a good chance this discussion has transpired more than once.
If so it would be nice to have a pointer to where I can find those
threads or web pages.

Appreciatively,

John

Craig
Tue Feb 07 10:21:13 CST 2006

That is still the case. No additional royalties are required. But, this
isn't as big advantage anymore. VS .Net with SQL Server Express requires no
additional royalties either.

--
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Visual FoxPro MVP
www.craigberntson.com
Salt Lake City Fox User Group
www.slcfox.org
www.foxcentral.net


"John" <johncorbell@yahool.com> wrote in message
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> Folks,
>
> A prime advantage of Fox has always been its licensing policy. Once you
> purchased the original development edition you could produce
> applications which would run free of any extra charges (royalty free).
>
> My impression is that this has changed in the more recent versions. I
> haven't been able to find the information on the official MS site.
>
> Is my summary of VFP licensing correct? Are there changes? If so, what
> are the new restrictions?
>
> There is a good chance this discussion has transpired more than once.
> If so it would be nice to have a pointer to where I can find those
> threads or web pages.
>
> Appreciatively,
>
> John

Cindy
Tue Feb 07 10:57:15 CST 2006

Hi John,

What you may be thinking of is the change in upgrade licensing for VFP8.
Unlike earlier versions, and also VFP9, the upgrade license required that
you could no longer use the version used as the basis of the upgrade. In
other words, if you needed to work in VFP7, 8, and 9 you'd have to have a
full version of VFP8. VFP9 is no longer like this.

--
Cindy Winegarden MCSD, Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
cindy_winegarden@msn.com www.cindywinegarden.com


"John" <johncorbell@yahool.com> wrote in message
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> A prime advantage of Fox has always been its licensing policy. .....
> My impression is that this has changed in the more recent versions.