You're right in that this is probably a moot point.
Your ability to power a web site using VFP is unlikely to be seen by MS as posing a serious threat to their revenue stream. But if you are not just doing it to p*ss off MS then may I ask why you would choose to do so?

>I would assume the original developer of the project has a license. Anyone that uses that download can do what they want - in this case develop web apps.
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>And I'm not even sure that matters. All the private web sites that distribute the VFP runtimes with no restrictions kind of make this point moot.
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>>>I thought only holders of licensed copies of VFP could distribute the runtimes ?
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>>No, using VFP like they did 15 or 20 years is oldster imo. And no, it doesn't matter even if M$ finds and destroys every copy of every VFP CD/DVD they can find. It will not kill it or even slow new development or ways of using it! Why? Because of the VFP runtimes. I can get a copy of ActiveVFP from CodePlex, write a complete vfp web app using nothing more than notepad and existing code/examples, and host it on the cloud at GoDaddy. And guess what? I never had to spend a dime on the original VFP to do it! And yes, it's legal.