Licensing question?

[Bruce W...1]

Say I wrote a program that used a .mdb file thru ODBC on the client
computer. And I sold a thousand copies of this program. Would I have
any Microsoft licensing liabilites from using a Microsoft Access file?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Rick Brandt]

Say I wrote a program that used a .mdb file thru ODBC on the client
computer. And I sold a thousand copies of this program. Would I have
any Microsoft licensing liabilites from using a Microsoft Access file?

Thanks for your help.

Nope. No more so than selling a Word Document or an Excel file.

 

[Larry Linson]

Generally, if you are not using Access nor another Microsoft product, you'd
be bound by the licensing terms and conditions associated with the Microsoft
Data Access Components (which is where you'd obtain the Jet engine and
Microsoft's version of ODBC drivers).

Read that carefully, as you may or may not have the right to redistribute
those components. If not, your users may or may not have rights to download
and use it.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP