DreamSpark Standard/Premium CAL licensing question

Hi to all,
Sorry in advance for not technical question, but I was redirected here from DreamSpark Support which wasn't able to answer my question. Since there is no forum which suits my problem best, I decided to post here.
I'm administrator of IT Academy within which we are allowed to use DreamSpark Standard and/or Premium subscription. My question is - do I need any additional CALs for Windows Server ,Windows 7, SQL Server or any other software used for only LAB purposes?
For example if I installed Windows 7 on PCs in LAB and sql server on central server for students to learn T-SQL - do I need any CALs or are they included in DreamSpark Premium/Standard subscrption. If yes, should I download/install these CALs in any special
way or can I just use all the software without considering any CAL issues?
Thank you for any reply,
Regards,
Pawel Damian

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Because of such question I have raised below thread if you could please have a look.
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/b8fa57c6-251b-4b47-b1f8-b47a451aa09d/sql-server-licensing-expert-on-forum-from-ms?forum=suggest
Pawel,
Unfortunately this is technical forum and its difficult to find MS licensing expert here who only can correctly answer your question. Did you talked to MS licensing expert of your region.
Please mark this reply as answer if it solved your issue or vote as helpful if it helped so that other forum members can benefit from it
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