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Visual FoxPro
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So as long as the DE (full VFP licensed on one workstation (or server?)),is installed - it's Okay?

>My opinion is that it would be great to be able to run the vfp runtime on linux. That way my web apps (via west-wind web Connection) could run on 3x as many servers as it does now!
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>However, the EULA seems "pretty" clear on restrictions concerning the "Redistributables" ( well REDIST.TXT for vfp7/8 does not seem to list the runtimes directly while the visual studion 6 redist.txt does). What is less clear is how the full version of VFP is restricted.
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>My stance is that I will follow the EULA -- it just doesn't make any sense to do anything else. I am licensing the product from MS, so they rightly control its distributed use.
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>Kevin
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