Visual Basic Crystal Reports - Crystal 10 Developer License

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Crystal 10 Developer License

Henry C. Wu

2005-05-15, 8:57 am

Hi All,
I have Crystal 10 Developer Edition.

I created a program with Visual Studio 2003 w/ VB that loads Crystal
Reports which are stored in a shared folder.

The ff code is what I use to load reports in a shared folder.

Private Sub LoadReport(ByVal reportName As String)
Dim Report As New ReportDocument()

' Open a temporary copy of the report.
Report.Load(reportName, OpenReportMethod.OpenReportByTempCopy)

' Preview the report.
crystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = Report
End Sub

I've made a SETUP file a added the Crystal 10 MergeModule
(CrystalReports10_NET_EmbeddedReporting.msm) which is the only one I
need to make my program work in other Client PCs.

My question is, am I breaking any License agreement with this setup?

I'm thinking since I have the Developer License, I am free to use
Crystal 10 APIs. And since the Client PCs I'll be installing my
program to is in the same Company, they wouldn't need to have license
to view the reports with the program I created since it is covered in
the Crystal 10 Developer license that I am free to develop with CR10
APIs and package it with CR10 runtimes/mergemodules.

Anyone with experience or insights on this will be very much
appreciated.

Thanks,
Henry

Thomas H

2005-05-16, 4:01 pm

In which way do you think you're breaking the developer license? Deploying
your application to other machines is within the developer license, as far
as I've understood it.

Crystal doesn't really lose money at all because your target machines don't
get all the features of Crystal Pro; those target machines can only have as
much as you code for them.

In fact, I don't think it has anything to do with your dev license/code and
the target machines being in the same company; what if your company wrote
software and sold it to other companies? My company purchased a
third-party-app that integrated Crystal 8.5, and we didn't have to pay a
license to Crystal. (Of course, we still wound up buying a few copies of
Crystal 10 Pro because that third-party-app's reports were of no use.)

-Thomas H

"Henry C. Wu" <henrycortezwu@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:44f096ca.0505142329.6e387f0c@posting.google.com...
> Hi All,
> I have Crystal 10 Developer Edition.
>
> I created a program with Visual Studio 2003 w/ VB that loads Crystal
> Reports which are stored in a shared folder.
>
> The ff code is what I use to load reports in a shared folder.
>
> Private Sub LoadReport(ByVal reportName As String)
> Dim Report As New ReportDocument()
>
> ' Open a temporary copy of the report.
> Report.Load(reportName, OpenReportMethod.OpenReportByTempCopy)
>
> ' Preview the report.
> crystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = Report
> End Sub
>
> I've made a SETUP file a added the Crystal 10 MergeModule
> (CrystalReports10_NET_EmbeddedReporting.msm) which is the only one I
> need to make my program work in other Client PCs.
>
> My question is, am I breaking any License agreement with this setup?
>
> I'm thinking since I have the Developer License, I am free to use
> Crystal 10 APIs. And since the Client PCs I'll be installing my
> program to is in the same Company, they wouldn't need to have license
> to view the reports with the program I created since it is covered in
> the Crystal 10 Developer license that I am free to develop with CR10
> APIs and package it with CR10 runtimes/mergemodules.
>
> Anyone with experience or insights on this will be very much
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Henry

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