Zootal
Wed Jul 02 18:35:34 CDT 2008
Some of those links are dead. The ones that live don't really settle the
matter, nor is this matter every likely to be setteled until someone
actually goes head to head with Microsoft (which is very unlikely to
happen). For fear of beating a dead dog - Ken Levy's "opinion" that the VFP
runtime files that a VFP app requires to run is considered a redistributable
file is not supported by the wording of the eula or the contents of
redist.txt. I've been saying this for a few years now, and the comments you
can find on the referenced website below say pretty much the same thing.
This is why we, and many others, have had this conversation over and over
again :-)
All of which is pretty much academic for most of us. After 18 years of
FoxPro, I no longer have any intentions of doing any more new development
with VFP.
/me beats the dead dog yet some more...
"Rush Strong" <rush.strong@[DELETEME]verizon.net> wrote in message
news:OrNaZpG3IHA.4036@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> You're free to distribute your own code (for non-Windows use), but you
> can't distribute the VFP runtimes - so good luck!
>
> See:
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFPandLinux~VFP for more than you
> probably want to know.
>
> - Rush
>
> Zootal wrote:
>> c. Distributable Code.
>>
>> 1. Right to Use and Distribute. Distributable Code is code and
>> related text files that are listed in a REDIST.TXT file or marked as
>> "sample" code.
>>
>> This does not seem to include code you write yourself from scratch. Which
>> means to me that you can write your own code and run it on any OS of your
>> choice.
>>
>> "Craig Berntson" <craig@craigberntson.com> wrote in message
>> news:5C2CC778-ED09-4DCF-AB41-5A75989D7B3C@microsoft.com...
>>> According to the EULA, you can't. From the EULA:
>>>
>>> Distribution Restrictions. You may not:
>>>
>>>
>>> * distribute any Distributable Code that runs on any platform
>>> other than the Windows platform; or
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Craig Berntson
>>> Microsoft MVP
>>>
>>> -------------
>>> "Zeke" <zeke@nowhere.now> wrote in message
>>> news:eFYUHgE3IHA.5024@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>> I would like to run a Foxpro COM server (9.0 sp1) on a Linux server.
>>>> How could that be done?
>>>> TIA
>>>>
>>
>>
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