How many licenses should I purchase?

09-10-2004, 11:00 AM

ActiveReports for .NET is licensed per developer. You need one license for each developer who uses ActiveReports for .NET to develop a report.

The following actions require an ActiveReports license for the person performing them:

  1. Developing reports inside the Visual Studio.NET IDE using the ActiveReports designer.
  2. Adding or using any of the ActiveReports components: Report, Viewer control, End-User Designer control, Export Filters, Web Viewer, HTTP Handlers.
  3. Writing code accessing any object included in the DataDynamics.ActiveReports namespace.
  4. Installing ActiveReports on a machine where it is integrated within the Visual Studio.NET IDE and then licensing that machine using the License.exe or LicensePro.exe.
  5. Developing reports using the evaluation version of ActiveReports which are subsequently published without the evaluation banner.

The following actions do not require a license:

  1. Licensing ActiveReports on a build machine. As long as you have a license for every developer performing the above actions, you are allowed to install the license key of the product on the build machine without purchasing an additional license. The only limitation is that you cannot install the product so that it is integrated within Visual Studio.NET. You have 2 options:
    • Use the runtime "SetLicense" method of ActiveReports to license the application. (Click here for technical information on licensing ActiveReports using the SetLicense method.) This method does not require the build machine to have a licensed version of ActiveReports in order to compile.
    • Install only the ActiveReports assemblies on the machine without integrating ActiveReports into the Visual Studio.NET IDE. If ActiveReports is not integrated in the Visual Studio.NET IDE, you may lawfully run the License.exe or LicensePro.exe to license the build machine for compilation.
  2. Developing reports with ActiveReports for .NET during the evaluation period of the product. (Note that reports developed with the evaluation version by one developer may not be licensed by another developer. The developer who created the reports must be licensed in order to lawfully publish those reports without the evaluation banner.)