Crystal Reports Licensing

I have a question about the various versions of Crystal Reports developer.
We have a product that uses an older version of Crystal Reports (8.5) and our product will be updating to use Crystal Reports XI, however we have customers that want to create there own reports for use with our product.
So far not a problem except if our customer wants to purchase a license to use the Crystal Reports 8.5 tools or the Crystal Reports XI tools.
I have told the customer to purchase a licensed copy of Crystal Reports and they did, however since they did this recently (within the last two weeks) they received the Crystal Reports 2008 product.
My question is how can I let our customer design custom reports in the older version?
Can they use an older version tool to do this if they have paid for a proper license in the current version?
If so, what do I do to allow them to have the tools.
We are going to run into this for a while until our developers also start using the Crystal Reports 2008 SDK and such to upgrade our product to the latest.
We have the older tools and proper licensing for them, but our customers can no longer purchase them.
I do not want to do any thing illegal, but I need to have customers that can design their own reports.
Thanks.

No, it does not help.
Maybe it was my problem in the way I described the question.
My company has custom applications where the Crystal Reports dll's have been distributed for Crystal 8.5 and the reports that these custom applications use were designed in Crystal 8.5.
We have licensed copies of this product.
Our customers want to design with Crystal 8.5 for compatible report file support. (We make them.)
But they cannot buy the same version product.
We make them buy the latest product your company sells, so that you get revenue from us distributing our application, but they cannot use the latest product and save it in a backward mode to make it work with our custom application.
Only reports made with the Crystal 8.5 product work.
So if they have purchased Crystal Reports 2008.
Can we give them Crystal Reports 8.5 to use until we update the custom application(s) (about thirty) to use the SDK for Crystal Reports 2008?
The same goes with Crystal Reports XI. We have licenses for this product for our development.
We have upgraded our applications to use this newer version, but have not been able to distribute them yet to all our customers.
We will be doing this soon, but we are already behind again because Crystal Reports XI is no longer sold.
It is ok that you don't sell the older product. We understand why.
Our customers have purchased Crystal Reports 2008 because that is what is available.
Even our newest package uses your design product that you no longer sell (Crystal Reports XI).
My company needs to have permission for our customers to use the older product until our development can catch up to use your latest product, but only if our customer purchases your latest product.
My company does not want to do anything illegal and we also want our customers to be able to create their own reports with one or both of your older products until we catch up to your latest product.
We will always require them to buy your latest product no matter if they will use it yet or not. We also suggest that they upgrade this license or licenses as your products change.
We will not let them make custom reports without buying your latest product first. That is our requirement and they accept this.
What do we need to do to allow our customers to install and use the older product?
Thanks.
Edited by: Tony Hugel on Oct 22, 2008 4:10 PM
Edited by: Tony Hugel on Oct 22, 2008 4:19 PM

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