Legal Questions

[BJ]

If I own a copy of VB 5.0 professional edition. Can I sell my programs that contain active x components like tab control and crystal reports. These came with the copy I bought. I have made a program I thought I would try to sell to just a few people. I did't want to get in trouble.

Also, I have downloaded a couple of images off the internet to use in it. Nothing copywrighted or anything, just a picture of some Bread and a steak. Could I use these?

Thanks
BJ

[baroberts]

As I understand it, you purchased the development environment(VB). The licensing agreement says you can freely distribute the runtime components. Look in the Help files under "developer help" and you will find content concerning redistribution.

Crystal's OCX, and others, are designed to be redistributed. You cannot redistribute the development environment but all reports and the runtime cocmponents can be. This is also addressed in the developer help sections under "redistributing".

In general, if you purchase the development version of a component, you can include the runtime versions with your app. Any component you purchase will address this, in one way or another, in it's documentation.

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Brad