Licencing issues distributing Jet Driver

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Simon

Hi

Im writing a program in Visual Basic, currently i am using an Access
database to store the programs saved data.

Can i put this program on the market: distributing an .mde file and the
approprate Jet driver?

If it makes a difference the product will be sold in the UK and Australia.

Thanks

Simon
 
Yes I am only using access as a database through ADO, and not using any of
the Access objects. But the user may not have access installed (im assuming
this is still ok?)

I know this is the wrong newsgroup to ask this but while we are on the
subject:

I am automating word using this program, i am not including a word or office
object in the program as i would like it to be independent of the version of
word. Does my VB licence give me permission to automate word?

Thanks Si
 
You can use ADO to access the database without problems from vb. What he is
saying is you CANT pull a Createobject("Access.Application"). The same goes
for word. If you must use it this way then the user is required to have a
licesend copy of word/access.
 
For Access i will not be using any access objects, and do not want to
require the user to have access installed.

For Word i will be using word objects, but wont be referencing them in my
project (nor will i be distributing them) so an installed version of word
WILL be required.

Am i right in assuming: as long as i am not distributing any office objects,
this is fine under my VB licence? (as in this case word/access would need
to be installed on the user's machine to do:
Createobject("Word.Application") )

Thanks Si
 
If you are using only the MDB to store data and do no Access Automation, you
are not using Access. You simply use JET which is included as part of your
VB license. IIRC, OS also installs versions of JET. There is no need for
the user to have Access on his / her PC.

You are OK to automate Word in your VB code but, of course, it won't work if
the user doesn't have Word installed.
 
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