Licensing a Build Server
Take a trip to the Microsoft Software License Terms page on microsoft.com. Once you've suffered through all the postbacks just to get to the Visual Studio 2008 English Retail license terms, take a read of parts 1 and 2.
I suspect the answer is "the buildserver needs its own copy", in which case "boo hiss boo", but that's what we've paid for, to be on the safe side.
1. OVERVIEW.Does, based on the bits highlighted in bold, this mean that a buildserver doesn't require its own licensed copy of Visual Studio, as long as each and every developer is using a licensed copy of the same edition of Visual Studio as installed on the buildserver? I'd love to know the definitive answer to that!
b. License Model. The software is licensed on a per user basis.
2. INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS.
a. General. One user may install and use copies of the software to design, develop, test and demonstrate your programs. Testing does not include staging on a server in a production environment, such as loading content prior to production use.
I suspect the answer is "the buildserver needs its own copy", in which case "boo hiss boo", but that's what we've paid for, to be on the safe side.
