KeithHenry wrote:

This app is invaluable, but appears to re-package Microsoft's IE DLLs, something expressly forbidden by their EULA.

We're FAST accredited and cannot use illegally licensed software.

Do you do anything to avoid this? Can this software be distributed without the packaged DLLs?

How do you want to load an application without her DLLs ?

fabrice wrote:

- are you aware of any EULA issues?

Looks like it is illegal to redistribute IE dlls, and it is even more illegal to install different versions of IE dlls into the same machine. So MS could be unhappy about that...

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fabrice wrote:

Hi,

That's right IE could be unhappy with that. The fact is that IE team people knows about IETester and they didn't complain yet.

IETester is intended to help web developers work faster. MS could decide to stop it. They didn't do it so far....

Thanks for the reply,

That's great that the IE team won't take any action, but unfortunately it doesn't carry any legal weight. FAST will still consider it to be pirated software, any developer caught with pirated software on their machine has transgressed my company's computer use policy and could be dismissed as a result.

Not good.

The ultimate penalty for use of unlicensed software is that the CTO/CIO could face gaol time. That means we have to take it pretty seriously. Every application on any machine in my company must have a licence.

It's a pity, because the devs on my team have found this app useful, but I'm going to have to tell all of them to uninstall it and delete any trace of it from their work machines.

Thanks

It is not so simple.

First, this is not very easy to get different IE dlls.

Then, I am changing the names of the dll in order to be able to load them side-by-side. So this is not going to work with standard dlls.