Customer License for crystal report

To Whom It May Concern,
Hi, I am new to SAP. I am asking this questions on behalf of my company who are developing software for customers.
We are using crystal report to develop our software to sell to our customers. My question is, does the customer compulsory to buy the license key to open it?
Another question is, what is the visual advantage? Does it have an additional towards the crystal report?
Hope to hear from you guys.
Thank you.

Hi there,
For creating reports CR 2008 License key is required. But Customer can simply view the reports using CR Viewer.
Visual Advantage is the combination of Xcelsius & CR.
Hope it clarifies.
Cheers,
Madhu

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