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Ribbon controls in Delphi

I have used TMS ribbon controls and ribbon controls came with Delphi 2009 in my project. I can remember the Delphi setup warned me about ribbon controls and said me to get license from Microsoft. What is the license and can I distribute this application as a commercial application?

Solution

  • To add to the link provided by @splash:

    Accepting that license basically means agreeing to stick to the Ribbon (Fluent Interface) guidelines as set out by Microsoft... (see link provided by splash). There are no restrictions on where / in what applications you use the Ribbon controls, or whether those applications are free, shareware, open source, closed commercial or whatever.

    Update

    As @The_Fox rightly mentions, there is a restriction to the type of application: you cannot use the Ribbon Controls in any application that competes with one of the Microsoft Office products.