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30/10/2008 12:42:39
 
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows Server 2003
Network:
Windows 2008 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01357903
Message ID:
01358394
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21
>>>The license agreement for VFP 7, 8, and 9 only allow VFP apps to run on Windows -- it explicitly restricts running on other OSs. I believe that VFP 6 is the last license that did not have this restriction.
>>
>>Hmm, I thought that restriction was introduced in VFP9, in response to Whil's experiments with VFP on Linux.
>>
>>e.g. Message#996196
>>
>>IAC, my understanding is there is nothing preventing anyone from installing and running their legal copy of VFP on Linux - the restriction is against runtime-only apps.
>
>This might be of interrest
>http://interactionlaw.com/id12.html

Interesting. Thanks.
Regards. Al

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