Deploying an AIR app

Ahem,
my appologies for cluttering up this fine forum with legal
stuff, but my boss wants to know if we can deploy a Flex/AIR app
from a CD or DVD. Seems like a fairly innocuous want, but the
snippet of the license agreement I have attached below ( Section
2.1.1 (a). (B). ) seems to suggest that an app can only be deployed
from my web-site. I know the chances are slim, but does anyone know
if I can deploy my app from anywhere other than a web-site?
Thanks.
Flex
license agreement ***
2.1 SDK Components.
2.1.1 License Grant.
(a) SDK Components. Subject to the terms and conditions of
this Agreement, Adobe grants Licensee a non-exclusive,
nontransferable license to (A) use the SDK Components for the sole
purpose of internally developing Developer Programs, and
(B) use the SDK Components as part of Licensee’s
website for the sole purpose of compiling the Developer
Programs that are distributed through the Licensee’s
website.

Yes, you can deploy. In this case you would be under (a), you
are developing a Developer Program which you are entitled to deploy
however you like. The (b) section is for when you use the Flex SDK
as part of your own website (basically as a process as part of
application logic) to build apps. What we mean to prohibit there
(and let me note that this should not be construed as binding legal
advice from Adobe) is using the SDK to build Flex apps for other
folks which they can then distribute (as-in, don't be a large-scale
hosted compiler).

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