Licensing FAQ

All DevExpress products are sold based on a subscription model. This means that when you purchase one of Subscriptions, you receive 12 months of free updates for that product(s) from the date of purchase – be it a minor service update or a major new version. After the 12 month period and at your discretion, you can pay about 45% of original price to "renew" the subscription and receive another 12 months of free updates. If you choose not to renew, you can continue using the last version you obtained or are eligible to use. The 12 month time frame is merely for new versions/updates and has no relevance to rights of use (as long as the EULA is not violated).

Note that you can renew a subscription after it has expired. Renewal costs increase 30 days after expiration of your subscription (pricing increases on a monthly basis after the 13th month). Please contact our client services team if you have an expired subscription or if you need further clarification on the terms of our subscription.

Absolutely. Each developer who uses our controls must obtain a license. With this license, the developer can install on a primary machine and a portable/laptop.

Absolutely.

Absolutely. You can continue to use products which you have licensed and paid for...as long as you require. When a subscription expires, it simply means that you will no longer be issued any product updates or new product releases.

An expired subscription can be renewed. If you do not renew your subscription on the 13th month after purchase, your renewal cost will increase on a monthly basis. Feel free to contact our client services team for more information on renewals and product costs once your subscription expires.

If no development is performed on the build machine and its sole purpose is to generate actual builds of your products, then no you do not need to purchase a separate license for the build machine. If however a developer uses the build machine for active development and this developer does not have a valid license to the products, then yes, he or she must acquire a license to said product.

Developer Express does not charge any royalties for redistribution of components that have been integrated into applications which you engineer.

Of course, this only applies if you have a valid license to all products which are being used within your application.

Important Note: Developer Express engineers products that include "redistributables" and those that do not. Our EULAs fully outline whether a product includes redistributables and the terms under which redistribution is authorized.

Absolutely. You can modify our source code and redistribute the modified libraries. As you can imagine, this does not apply to situations in which you are modifying our code and repackaging our controls and selling competing controls. Please consult our EULA for additional information.