Access Runtime Licensing

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Gman

Am I correct in assuming that, since Office 2000 and greater included
the Jet drivers in all flavours (e.g. Small Business edition etc.),
there is no problem licence-wise for a user to *use* an Access database
through Excel or a VB app even though they don't have Access installed?

(It wouldn't make sense to include the Jet drivers otherwise right?)

I've already a few postings that seem to confirm this but I just want to
be sure....

Thanks
 
A

Albert D.Kallal

yes. in fact windows ships with a copy of jet. So, you don't even need
office....
 
G

George Nicholson

If you have Excel or VB you can use those to read a .mdb file via Jet with
no legal concerns (AFAIK, Jet & .mdb were the "built-in" database options
for VB6 apps)

Licensing issues would involve the use of the MSAccess.exe application
itself: viewing the data in the .mdb file via Access forms, Access reports,
etc.

(Not a lawyer)

HTH,
 
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