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Original post by programwizard I just made a game with Visual Studio Enterprise Architect; can I legally sell it?

If you actually have to ask that question than you are obviously using a stolen/warez version and so therefore it is illegal for you to distribute the software.

Anybody that would actually purchase VS EA knows exactly what they can do with it and what comes with the package due to the cost, and/or they could just quickly browse the EULA.

I have the academic version's EULA right here, it says nothing about distributing software.

Here is actually a quote from someone with Microsoft:

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MS provides a special pricing of Visual Studio to academic customers without restricting the commercial use of apps produced with the tool. In other words, a customer, if they meet the requirements for the academic license, can license the academic edition of VS, can build apps with it, and can sell those apps for commercial purposes. -Dino -- Dino Chiesa Microsoft Developer Division

It seems that people never truely understand the academic licensing program. If you qualify as a licensee you are allowed to sell commercial applications.. but as soon as you no longer qualify under the license you must purchase professional edition. Also you are not able to sell the products under a company as it obviously does not qualify under the license, you can only distribute commercial applications under your own name.

It would be nice if Microsoft and other companies made it clearer. I googled like everything! "commercial purposes" , "non-commercial purposes", "academic license" etc.

I also had to sent an email to adobe about the academic version of photoshop for commercial purposes (selling art), apparently I can so thats cool.

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Original post by Konfusius Quote: Original post by RomSteady You cannot legally sell products made with the downloadable Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit. This is incorrect. Quote: msdn Are there any restrictions on how I use the Visual C++ Toolkit? In general, no. You may use the Toolkit to build C++ -based applications, even commercial applications, and you may redistribute those applications in accordance with the terms of the End User License Agreement (EULA).

Huh...the EULA must have changed a bit. Originally, it was for non-commercial use only. There are still some minor restrictions on what can be developed with the Toolkit, however, that are outlined in the EULA. In addition, the Toolkit does not come with several of the more commonly used Windows development libraries.