This might be a stupid question but I just wanted to make sure…
If I incorporate code generated by the IDE (Visual Studio in this case) in my software, can I apply my own license to that code or is it subject to its own license?
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This might be a stupid question but I just wanted to make sure…
If I incorporate code generated by the IDE (Visual Studio in this case) in my software, can I apply my own license to that code or is it subject to its own license?
In the general case you should read carefully the licence that comes with your wizard/code generator.
In the vast majority of cases, the code produced by a wizard (or a compiler or a pre-processor, etc) is a completely separated entity from the generator itself and no restriction is applied to it.
There are cases, though, where copyrighted code could be inserted in the generated code, for example as a set of functions to support the generated code.
Also in this case most of the code generators state that that piece code is licensed under very liberal terms. Trying to limit code modification and redistribuition or to impose run-time royalties has demonstrated itself to be a very poor business model. I’ve seen it used by old program-generators on a mainframe for example, but not much since then.
So, in 99.9% of the cases you are ok with doing whatever you want with the generated code, just read the fine print to cover the remaining 0.1%