The final license agreements are being worked on by our teams.
But the basic outlines are final and my earlier email explains them.
The information on non-commercial licenses on our site is based on the
Flex 1.5 timeframe, it has not been updated for 2.0.
Hope this helps,
David
Adobe
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nasir Khan
> Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 2:50 PM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [flexcoders] New to Flex and deciding...
>
> Manuel/David/JesterXL
>
> Thanks a lot for the clarifications and insights.
> Are all the licensing details you mentioned already finalized
> at Macromedia or are they still deciding?
>
> The reason I ask this again is because I could not find this
> information on any "official" macromedia site, there are some
> blogs which talk about it, some lists and so forth. In one of
> the blogs their product manager said "we intend to make SDK
> free..." the intention is not good enough for people like me :-)
>
> On the contrary I came accross this yesterday -
> http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/productinfo/ncni/scena
> rios.html
>
> It just talks about Non-Commercial licenses. I have all
> intentions to be commercial from day-1. And would be happy
> to buy upgrade/cluster licenses, I just dont want to pay
> upfront costs. This material could be dated but there is so
> much and often conflicting information on licensing and costs.
>
> Thanks
> Nasir
>
>
>
> --- Manuel Saint-Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > Nasir,
> > You'll probably get more precise answers to the individual
> aspects of
> > your questions from other members but i just wanted to help
> you with
> > the confusion aspect. Flex 2 and Flex 1.* are entirely different
> > worlds. The "rules" have been entirely changed and deployment now
> > costs you nothing.
> > The files generated from Flex 2 do not require any type of server
> > license.
> > From what I understand the builder will be priced.
> > The builder being the
> > thing you are enjoying dragging and dropping in as we speak. It's
> > very nice and makes developing your apps a wonderful experience.
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> > As far as the data services- They are free to a
> > point- I haven't
> > investigated all of the details of that yet but from what I
> understand
> > you can build a fully functional application that is only
> limited in
> > the number of users that can access it at one time (if I'm wrong
> > someone please correct me). So I believe the HTTPService will be
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