application builder distribution rights

[John Cronin]

Hi,

Could someone please clarify the rights we have with regard to distribution
of executables created with the application builder. I bought the
application builder because its sales pitch was "you can freely create
executables and distribute them". Upon receiving the software, (app
builder) i read the software license agreement and found that you are free
to distribute the executables except when you are using it for: data
acquisition, analysis, a user interface (strip charts, gauges, meters etc)
and a host of other restrictions.
I can not actually think of any application that does not use at least one,
if not all of the above.
This seems ridiculous, since I have bought $1700 worth of software that does
exac
tly what I want, technically, but prevents me from ever using it
legally. (at least as I have understood the software agreement)

Just what is the go?

EasilyConfused

[sidesh0w@my-deja.com]

John-

I've had the same questions lately and the feedback that I got from a
NI salesperson was that you can distribute the executibles and labview
runtime to any machine that you wish. To do the data acqusition, you
have to install NI-DAQ, but that license will come with the DAQ card
that you will have to purchase from the machine.


Hope this helps...


In article ,
"John Cronin" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could someone please clarify the rights we have with regard to
distribution
> of executables created with the application builder. I bought the
> application builder because its sales pitch was "you can freely create
> executables and distribute them". Upon receiving the software
, (app
> builder) i read the software license agreement and found that you are
free
> to distribute the executables except when you are using it for: data
> acquisition, analysis, a user interface (strip charts, gauges, meters
etc)
> and a host of other restrictions.
> I can not actually think of any application that does not use at
least one,
> if not all of the above.
> This seems ridiculous, since I have bought $1700 worth of software
that does
> exactly what I want, technically, but prevents me from ever using it
> legally. (at least as I have understood the software agreement)
>
> Just what is the go?
>
> EasilyConfused
>
>


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[Martin.D]

Can anyone provide more clarification on this subject. I was hoping to sell an application I created but it includes a chart.

[Dr._Imad]

As mentioned, NI, to my understanding, you can create as many LabView stand alone executables as you want and sell it to customers, install it on their computers, install the run time engine, no matter whether you have a chart in your program or not
Some tools sets used with labview however, require licensing from NI per individual user and/or computer (even with a stand alone executable) (ex: Database tool set)

To use the DAQ functionality, you need to have a NI daq card, that comes shipped with NI-Daq drivers. Ni-daq drivers will not run daq cards not manufactured by NI. The NI-DAQ driver is free to down load, but it is useable only with NI daq cards (which you pay for anyway)