licensing question

[Peter]

Dear All
    Does the WPF control can be used in a open source project? In telerik website, i see WPF have more components than winform, is it more powerful?
thanks
from Peter ([e-mail])

[Donna]

Hi Peter,

Thank you for contacting us with your inquiry!

Nope, our RadControls for WPF cannot be used in any open source projects because this is this is considered as violation of our License Agreement.

A purchased license of our RadControls includes a run time royalty-free license to redistribute the controls in your own solutions. However, when you deploy your applications, you have to make sure that the DLL files of the Telerik controls are protected and locked, so that your clients don't have access to them. If your clients are going to update your project via using our controls in design time, this is considered as violation of our License Agreement and they will have to purchase the appropriate number of licenses for our controls.

Please, let me know if you have any questions.
 
All the best,
Donna
the Telerik team

[Lagrange]

Hi,

This is an old question, but I'm reopening it to get some additional information.

I intend to make my currently closed source project, an open source one. And I use WPF/Winforms/OpenDocument telerik's components.

If I don't redist the official dll with the source code, but notice the others developers how to buy your product in order to develop/release a version, is this acceptable ? Or should I throw all references to your amazing products ?

Thanks

[Dinko | Tech Support Engineer]

Hi Lagrange,

Thank you for your interest in our products.

In order to better assist you, I will forward your question to our sales team. They will contact soon with more details about your license question.

Regards,
Dinko
Progress Telerik