[Python-Dev] Visual studio 2005 express now free (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Apr 25 01:55:05 CEST 2006


Terry Reedy wrote:

Since, as I remember, there was no license agreement for the download, just for the install (if/when I do it), I should think it legal to send the file to someone else. But I don't really know, of course.

Going by the download page for 2005, it does not have any restrictions on the page:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/download/

so it seems plausible that vc2003 did not have such restrictions, either. However, the bottom of the page has a link (Terms of Use) to

http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.mspx

which says

WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, COPYING OR REPRODUCTION OF THE SOFTWARE TO ANY OTHER SERVER OR LOCATION FOR FURTHER REPRODUCTION OR REDISTRIBUTION IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED, UNLESS SUCH REPRODUCTION OR REDISTRIBUTION IS EXPRESSLY PERMITTED BY THE LICENSE AGREEMENT ACCOMPANYING SUCH SOFTWARE.

So I guess they don't want you to provide copies of that file.

Regards, Martin



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