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>Maybe something changed? Can you point to MS site page that describe/approve these your words? A year ago when I started to use MSDE, I did figured out proudly that MSDE could not be distributed with applications and for production you have to use SQL Server 7.0. Is it different for MSDE 2000?
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Hello Vlad.

MSDE ALWAYS has been free to redistribute in apps, as long as your app is not an Access clone.

Regards