I am working a project that is going to be made open source eventually. The performance of builtin WPF 4.0 datagrid is terrible. I am thinking of using Telerik controls to improve the performance of the application.
Is it possible to use telerik in an open-source project without providing the binaries such that only people who have telerik libs installed will be able to compile the project.
Questions:
Will telerik add something in the project file (or folder) that would allow people without a telerik license to use the their controls for free? (which I don’t want)
I haven’t bought telerik yet (so I do need to ask someone who has) but I remember for devexpress winforms, that they used to add a licx file (if memory serves me right) to the project that was unsafe to share due to license issues. Any similar files I need to be aware of for telerik?
Anyone who does not have a license to the Telerik grid would not be allowed or able to build your project. They would certainly be able to use it.
Assuming they were able to successfully build your project, there would generally be a runtime dialog that indicates the control is not licensed. I’m not sure if Telerik implements it this way though.
Generally, license information is embedded in the built assembly. This license information is generally stored on the developers machine and included by Visual Studio when building.
The license agreement can be found here. But if you purchase a license, you can distribute the assemblies as part of your application royalty-free.
You can still open-source your project, but in order for others to build it they’d have to buy a license as well.