Licensing meets rebranding meets tightly integrated solutions

[JamesIQ]

Hello and good day. I wish to build a piece of software that could be
considered 49% done already if I were to tightly integrate with parts of
OneNote.

A) Do I have to otherwise tell people somehow that it is built atop OneNote?
B) Will I be required to install or license "One Note" to them?
C) What is the licensing arrangement if any of this is allowed or capable of
happening?

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

Well, if your product requires OneNote then they'll have to own a OneNote
license. However they obtain it (I.e. they already have it or they buy it
separately) they'll have to have it.

You can resell OneNote to them, but they will still have to be legal copies,
so you'll have to buy OneNote and then resell - just like any other bit of
retail software.

If you think you're going to sell a LOT of this you might be able to enter
into a licensing agreement with Microsoft at a reduced price.

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-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
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