I would expect as much. Nonetheless, my point is that you should make the process available to all interested parties - regardless of whether they are an MVP. Whether they get approved or not - that is another issue entirely.

As for the Intellectual Property Law ramifications of this - I am all too aware of what those issues are. Cleary, MS wants to make sure it is not ceding ownership of anything and that all copyrights in the deriviative work are assigned to MS.

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We worked on this project for months, and it involved a great deal of legal work as well. There is a formal contract, use of special tools that we only use internally at Microsoft that is not avaialble to the public, etc. The project is a great deal of work and effort for many people, and the only benefit for it to exist is where there is an existing customer base who will consider obtaining VFP 8.0 English when they had a previous version in another language knowing they can download the localized DLL. The project also uses data strings and such that Microsoft used previously. But I do plan to review the results of the German, Spanish, and French projects early next year and see what the result was, then determine if we should work to localize any other versions, if at all.
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