>They are talking about the code and apps that they are providing with VFP. It is code that they have written and are granting you a license to distribute it with your app. They have the right to restrict that. That line does not say you can not distribute your own app to run on another platform. Here is where the vagueness from lawyers comes in. How distinct is that line between distributable code and the VFP runtime DLLs? Is a runtime DLL distributable code? If you look in the VFP home folder and open the REDIST.TXT file, here is what you will find among other things:

Let's read this again:

3. Distribution Restrictions. You may not:

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* distribute any Distributable Code that runs on any platform other than the Windows platform

Since all of this code runs on the Windows platform (and not even there - you can't run a .fll on any platform, you can only call it from VFPn.exe or your exe)... what's the subject of this limitation? Is there any code in the VFP9 package "that runs on any platform other than the Windows platform"? If so, they could have just listed it.

I think they are trying to sound precise and be vague at the same time - which then becomes a rule that's unusable, because it can't be applied without interpretation. We may just feel like interpreting it ourselves, and come to any imaginable conclusion, but I think the only true interpretation is "we may sue you below poverty point if we feel like".