Access As Database data source + licensing

Question

Hello,
If I was to develop an application with Microsoft Access as the data source, I can connect to the Access database like so
     update the database
   private boolean updateDatabase(String value)
             try
                   Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
             catch (Exception e)
                   System.out.println("Failed to load JDBC/ODBC driver.");
                   return false;
             try
             {  createDatabaseConnection();
                 query="UPDATE Sonething SET value='"+value+"' WHERE Name='Chris'";
                    stmt = con.createStatement();
                    stmt.executeUpdate(query);
                    con.close();
          catch (Exception e)
              e.printStackTrace(System.err);
              return false;
       return true;
     Create a connection to the access database
     using a dsn-less connection
   private void createDatabaseConnection()
        try
             url ="jdbc:odbc:DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver(*.mdb)};DBQ=.//dbase//testdb.mdb";     
            con=DriverManager.getConnection(url,"test","password");     
      catch(Exception e)
           e.printStackTrace(System.err);     
However the questions are as follows, If I use Access as the database source does the client computer need a copy of access and are there any licensing restrictions in distributing the .mdb ?
THanks
Chris

Answer 1

No licence required for this type of access. You can distrubute and use programmaticaly MS Access database.