Runtime Engine Distribution Licensing (Legal) Issues?

Hi Everyone,
I need an official word from National Instruments on this one.
I've written a program using LabVIEW that I would like to distribute to the public. It runs in conjunction with a C#-based executable and is installed using the C# program's installer. Is there any legal/licensing problem with including the LabVIEW Runtime Engine installer with the C# program's installer?
Thanks!
-Yohan
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Hi Yohan,
Thanks for your post and I hope your well.
You can distribute LabVIEW executables freely. There is no need of a license to run executables that only require the Runtime Engine. Other modules such as Real Time do require a Run-Time License. Please see this link for more details: Which Software Requires a Run-Time License?
Can I ask more about your application - why do you require to distrubte these together?
Hope this helps,
Kind Regards
James Hillman
Applications Engineer 2008 to 2009 National Instruments UK & Ireland
Loughborough University UK - 2006 to 2011
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