We recognize that this expansion of usage rights doesn’t address all of the needs that users have expressed, and we’re continuing to evaluate how to best address those needs. At this time, development and testing of open-source dependencies will still require the use of Visual Studio Community or higher.
We will be shortly releasing an updated license to the Build Tools that expands its use to building (but not developing/testing) open source C++ dependencies without the requirement of using Visual Studio. (You can find the Build Tools license here: ) Historically, use of the Visual Studio Build Tools has been restricted to users with a license to Visual Studio and for use with Visual Studio-developed projects.
As mentioned in Use lld by default on Windows to mitigate Microsoft C++ Build Tools licencing issues and a lot of other places, VS Build Tools that are used by default on Windows is quite messy from the legal point of view.īut it seems like Microsoft is going to at least partially fix it soon:
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