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I am thinking of developing customized software for desktops in Visual FoxPro 9 and want to know what type of licensing is required.

As a developer, would I need to have a Visual FoxPro 9 license and would my users need to have the End User License? What type of licenses would be needed for commercial release? How would the licensing change if I released this as freeware?

Adam Lear
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venkat
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Frankly, I recommend that you don't waste your time starting any new development in VFP:

  • As a developer, you'd need a full license for VFP - a dead product.
  • VFP 9 "will be supported by Microsoft through 2015." (Source: Alan Grivier, Microsoft).
  • VFP is now in maintenance mode and is not going to be enhanced or updated
  • VFP apps can't be ported to 64-bit and are likely to increasingly encounter compatibility issues, for which there will be no fixes.
  • VFP apps most likely won't run in Win8 on ARM-based devices (tablets, phones, etc).

If you're going to start any new development, I strongly encourage you to do so in a modern development language, platform and toolset (e.g. C# in Visual Studio 2010).

Richard Turner
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