Licensing requirements

Question

I want to understand from you the licensing cost to avoid any legal issues.

I have to develop an Asp.net core website with SQL as backend. This website will be sold to my client and deployed on his office PC.

I want to keep costs to minimum.

Tools I'm thinking:

• On my development PC: VS2019 Community edition and SQL 2019 Developer edition.
• On deployment PC: IIS and SQL 2019 Express.

This way we can use free versions and still abide by your licensing terms. Is my understanding correct?

Thanks.

Answer 1

This is a community forum, not a MS official support site.

For detailed information about the license issue, please call 1-800-426-9400, Monday through Friday, 6:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. (Pacific Time) to speak directly to a Microsoft licensing specialist. For international customers, please use the https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/worldwide to find contact information in your locations.

Answer 2

Tom's advice is absolutely right no the money. This is not the place for authoritative answers about licensing.

However, this question is simple enough that I as a layman dare to answer: Yes, you are good. Express Edition is licensed for production. (And IIS is part of the OS, isn't it?)