Re: [Audacity-devel] Visual Studio 2012 upgrade?
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From: jongalloway <jon...@gm...> - 2013-11-12 20:02:42
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To the best of my understanding - after reading the EULA, licensing references, and support forums - is that there's no restriction on what you produce or distribute using Express as opposed to any other flavor of Visual Studio. The restriction James was talking about refers to redistribution of sample code and libraries provided with Visual Studio: "The software contains code that you are permitted to distribute in programs you develop if you comply with the terms below...". The idea is that they provide some sample code as part of the install and SDK's, and you're allowed to redistribute that code under certain conditions. I'm sure you're not using any of the sample code, and the redist list is mostly for Microsoft specific stuff (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/vstudio/hh857605). They list the VC++ runtime, but just say it's listed subject to the license terms of the software - in other words, no change over VC++ distribution you may already be doing. There are plenty of official responses on the support forums saying it's fine to use VS 2010 and 2012 Express for commercial software, non-profit, etc. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/2fffa78a-aab9-42ad-8fe4-2acc066b5339/vs-express-2010-2012-license?forum=Vsexpressinstall Let me know if you need more than this, I can loop in someone on the VS Express team. -- View this message in context: http://audacity.238276.n2.nabble.com/Visual-Studio-2012-upgrade-tp7560179p7560523.html Sent from the audacity-devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |