Office Web Component Licensing

[Guest]

I am unclear about licensing of the OWC.

1. Am I licensed use OWC with VB? OWC is available on the PC, installed with Office 2003.
2. Can I distribute the VB application?

Thanks.

 

[Tom Ogilvy]

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=555075
Office Web Component (O.W.C.) licensing

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555094&Product=off2003
Office Web Component (O.W.C.) interactive usage

Note that these above are community solution articles - written by a another
user (MVP Alvin Bruney), so they represent his interpretation of the
licensing.

This article on MSDN has a large number of links to information on the OWC
(towards the bottom). It has a link for licensing for office 2000. It
covers office XP as well, but I didn't see a specific article on licensing.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnoffdev/html/vsofficedev.asp


these cover licensing specifically, but I don't know if it will address your
specific question about VB. (I couldn't find a 2003 equivalent to the first
two).

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;288729
288729 - OFFXP: General Information About Licensing and Using Office XP Web
Components

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;243006
243006 - OFF2000: Licensing the Office 2000 Web Components and Office Server
Extensions

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828950
How to Deploy the Office 2003 Web Components in an Office 2003 Program


This article is about use rather than licensing.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/previous/components/default.aspx