Hi Craig,

I think it may be finally coming clearer to me. The document I referred to had this example in it:

Example 2: A Fortune 500 firm has outsourced the development of its store-locator mobile application to a small agency.
The application is not an open source project. The agency has 5 employees working on the project and would like to use
Visual Studio Community 2015. Since the agency is a contractor developing this application for the Fortune 500 firm, and
since the application is not an open source project, the agency cannot use Visual Studio Community 2015 for developing
and testing the application.

In my case (for a particular project) a company wants to hire my company to maintain their software. I think that from the above example I can extrapolate that once the hiring company has less than 250 PCs and less than US$1M in annual revenue (will that be for the last financial year?) it should be OK for me to use the community edition. That is your interpretation, correct?

If so, I wonder if I can convince a privately owned company to tell me if their annual revenue was more or less than US$1M. :o)

>It's pretty clear to me.
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>1. You do not meet the "Individual Developer" clause because you have a company that sells the software.
>2. Under the "Organization" clause, you meet the requirement for number of users. You have to decide if the company has less than $1 million in revenue. If you do, you can use Community Edition.
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>>Hi,
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>>I've been doing some research into upgrading my Visual Studio 2010 version. I am an independent developer but sell my services as a limited liability company (the company's only employee is me). I generally develop unique applications for clients to use within their own business meeting their own unique business needs but I also have an application that I sell "off the shelf". Is the Community Edition of VS 2015 suitable for my situation?
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>>From my research so far I believe it is but just want to ensure I am understanding the documentation properly.
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>>This is the relevant text from the Licensing documentation (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13350):
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>>"Individual developers
>>Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community, to create their own free or paid apps.
>>Organizations
>> An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios:
>>in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.
>> For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In
>>enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1M in annual revenue) no use is permitted for
>>employees as well as contractors beyond the open source, academic research and classroom learning environment
>>scenarios described above. "