Hello,
Sorry if this post does not belong here, but I did not knew a better place for it.
I have read the Visual Studio Community license usages and from what I understand, it's permitted for:
- individual use for making your own apps for any purpose
- if company not enterprise, up to 5 developers can use to develop and test your apps
- on enterprise no use except for specified cases (open source, drivers...)
From what I see there is a strong focus on own apps both for individual and company and doesn't really mention anything about for instance work under hire. Looking at licensing whitepaper there is an example of a Fortune 500 company, which I think means it's a enterprise, outsourcing to an agency and usage is not permitted. But it's unclear if it's because it's an enterprise or because the agency is contracted and project is not open source.
My questions are:
- a self employed is considered as individual?
- what happens in the case of an individual or small company which does freelancing/work under hire/contracting for others? In this case the developer does not make his own apps but for instance it creates a new app from scratch or updates an existing app for another individual/company not enterprise. So the owner is not the developer. Is Visual Studio Community Edition usage permitted in this case? I see nothing in the license that allows this usage.
Thank you very much for your time.