I’m trying to sign up to redistribute SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 but I cannot seem to find the page to register for redistribution. I found this link http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/compact/redistribute.mspx that someone posted but that just directs me to the homepage. If I go to the 4.0 download page there is a link for the SQL Server Compact redistribution site, but this just goes back to the same homepage. I had to use the 4.0 page because I cannot seem to find the 3.5 page and any links like this one : http://www.microsoft.com/Sqlserver/2005/en/us/compact.aspx just go back to that same homepage.
Does anyone have a working link to where I can register? Do I even have to register? I found the SQL Server Compact 2005 Datasheet and in it says:
SQL Server Compact Edition is free to
download, develop, and deploy
applications. SQL Server Compact
Edition is also free for third parties
to redistribute.
With a footnote that says:
A simple redistribution agreement must
be signed online.
But if I go to the 4.0 download page it says:
SQL Server Compact 4.0 is freely
redistributable under a redistribution
license agreement and application
developers redistributing SQL Server
Compact 4.0 can optionally register at
the SQL Server Compact redistribution
site. Registering will help the
developers in getting information
about SQL Server Compact critical
security patches and hot fixes that
can be further applied to the client
installations.
Did the terms change between 3.5 and 4.0? Every site I find implies you need to register to redistribute.
It looks like the terms changed… But they are the same now, if you look at the download pages: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=5783 and http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17876