Re: License issues with OWC11

Based on the licensing rules, you have to make a decision about compliance.
I am pretty sure no one in here will make that decision for you.

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"Developers Club" <acg.sion.vinto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've read the following article:

How to deploy the Office 2003 Web Components in an Office 2003 program,
reviser a fondo.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828950

The parts that I'm more interested in are:

"By default, if you do not have Office 2003, Access 2003, Excel 2003,
or FrontPage 2003 installed on the computer, you are licensed for
static, non-interactive use of the Office 2003 Web Components program
when you install the Office Web Components. With this kind of license,
you can view the controls on a Web page, but you are not licensed to
interact with the controls. If your organization owns an Enterprise,
Select, or Maintenance Agreement for Office 2003 and you plan to deploy
Office 2003 in phases, you can allow early adopters of Office 2003 to
share component-based Web pages with users who have not yet installed
Office 2003."

Here everything is good. I've developed a site that uses OWC and if the
client didn't have OFFICE he could see the page in non interactive
mode, and of course if he has he could see in interactive mode.

"With the release of Microsoft Office 2003 SP2, the license checking
code was also removed for Microsoft Office Web Components version 11.
If your organization downloaded an updated version of Office Web
Components version 11 after the release of Microsoft Office 2003 SP2,
you will no longer have the license checking code in Office Web
Components version 11."

Now this is, what I don't like in part, if someone download the OWC11
now has the full interactive mode, regardless he have or doesn't have
Office installed?

What should I do? What is the meaning of this? Any help would be
appreciated.

Should I shut down the site because I can't control wheter a user uses
interactive or non-interactive mode??



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