LabVIEW, Program Licensing and Domain

[Nusnus]

Hi,

Im doing a research that requires me to build a system. To publish a paper for this standalone program (.exe), i need to have program licensing and upload it in a domain.

Does LabVIEW has a special domain and program licensing for my case? if they don't, could you suggest to me any domain that is suitable (preferably free).

Thanks.

[JCH_26]

HI Nusnus

LabVIEW EXEs are free to distribute as you wish. The only requirement to run on a machine that doesn't have the LabVIEW environment is download and install of the the NI RunTime engine which you could say is a free downloadable license in a way.

Note: Some add on items like Vision and teststand require paid for runtime/ deployment licenses

The only other thing I can think is if you place a MIT License which is free and things like Ruby and Rust use

Hope this is helpful?

Cheers

Jono

[billko]

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@JCH_26 wrote:

HI Nusnus

LabVIEW EXEs are free to distribute as you wish. The only requirement to run on a machine that doesn't have the LabVIEW environment is download and install of the the NI RunTime engine which you could say is a free downloadable license in a way.

Note: Some add on items like Vision and teststand require paid for runtime/ deployment licenses

The only other thing I can think is if you place a MIT License which is free and things like Ruby and Rust use

Hope this is helpful?

Cheers

Jono

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Additionally, I think you have to include some LabVIEW-related copyright stuff in a readme or as an "about.vi".  I can't remember where in the LabVIEW folder I've seen this, though.

[JCH_26]

True, i would have thought the MIT license in a readme would suffice? it's never really something we've done as In our case, the IP is either owned by us or the customer dependent on the project. Our about Run time menu items usually detail company info and release version number etc.. 

[CanadaGuy]

Regarding the domain, you could upload your files to Github. You would need an account, create a repository, then upload your files to the repository. This would allow you to point some to https://github/username/respository to download your VIs/Libs/Projects.