what are the licensing requirements of vb6 programs

Question

Dear all, one of my friend is making commercial program in vb6 , is there any license required to sell the application to end user. he is having vb6 developer license.

Answer 1

There are no specific license requirements for VB6 applications that I know of. All that's important is that current operating systems ship with the VB6 runtimes, and for the moment that is true. The VB6 runtime comes pre-installed all the way up to Windows Server 2008 R2. There's a ton of useful information for your friend here:

Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ms788708.aspx

-Oisin

Answer 2

From the VB6 manual

You can freely distribute any application you create with Visual Basic to anyone who uses Microsoft Windows

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa716256(VS.60).aspx

If you have used third-party controls or other components, you must check whether you can distribute them. This link lists some Microsoft controls that you can redistribute.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ms788708.aspx