Just wondering. Can I legally distribute a program that creates and accesses an Access database with a Vb frontend? Just curious about using the Access file format. Don't want any grief form Microsoft!! :confused:
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Just wondering. Can I legally distribute a program that creates and accesses an Access database with a Vb frontend? Just curious about using the Access file format. Don't want any grief form Microsoft!! :confused:
Yes, as long as your only distributing the *.mdb, *.adp, *.mde. MDAC is all that is necessary (free download from ms but you probably already have it installed) for you to connect to the db but you can not diaplay any part of the Access GUI as the full version of Access would be required and a license for each workstation its installed on.
And, if you are programmatically creating a database, then you aren't distributing anything except your compiled program (and its dependencies of course.)Quote:
Originally Posted by 2old4this
:) Thanks for the info. That's what I thought, but wanted to check before I got too far along with the cd duplication, marketing expenses, etc. Again, thanks a lot. :thumb: