Access Royalty Free Distribution Rights

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Hello,

I am working for a client whom I have performed Access DB application work.
As part of the goal for my work, I am to make ready an Access 2003
application for deployment using the applicable Access Runtime extensions
and package and deployment features. I have purchased the necessary
software and Access extensions to permit package and deployment and royalty
free distribution of the clients application. Since I am the actual owner
of the Access extensions and royalty free distribution rights by agreement
included with the MS software, and not my client, am I allowed to pass the
purchase costs on to the client for my expense of purchasing the necessary
software and royalty free distribution rights? I would be representing this
cost to the client as a purchase for my royalty free distribution of their
application.

I am new to this and could use some insight on how this may best be handled
without instructing the client to go out a spend the big dollars on the
software I purchased to complete this deployment, in my case, VS Studio
2003.NET, MS Visual Studio Tools for the MS Office System, and already had
Access 2003.

If I have not posted to the correct areas and should look to others, please
direct me to those areas.

Thank you.

 

[Larry Linson]

The license allows you to distribute the application and runtime support.
Payment arrangements with your client are controlled by your contract with
the client, whether verbal or written, whether informal or formal -- so no
one here could really give you a definitive answer.

On the other hand, perhaps your client would, indeed, be better off if they
purchased a copy of the Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003 System, or the
Office Developer Edition for any earlier version. That way, if you are so
ungrateful as to walk in front of a speeding eighteen wheeler a few years
from now, and they then need some maintenance, that would let them provide
the needed development software to whoever they hired to maintain it.

Actually, the "access.gettingstarted" newsgroup is for technical questions
about Microsoft Access. I don't know the restrictions in the Visual Studio
newsgroups. But, if we can help, we will usually give it a try before
directing you elsewhere.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP