Does the Lifecycle product license include the use of Flex Builder Pro and Flex SDK?

[Former Community Member]

I have been trying to find out whether we can use the latest Flex Builder and SDK using the LiveCycle license or do we need to purchase additional license? We will use these products to develop Flash Applications to use with our Livecycle product.

[TundraSteve]

The end user license agreement and the supplement should provide your answer:

http://www.adobe.com/products/eulas/pdfs/MET_and_LC4.pdf

2.1. Definition of OnPremise Software for Additional Adobe LiveCycle Components. If Customer has licensed

Additional Adobe LiveCycle Components as set forth on the Sales Order, then “OnPremise Software” means the

Foundation Components, the LiveCycle SDK Components, the Flex SDK Components, and object code versions of

any of the applicable Additional Adobe LiveCycle Components, including all Documentation and other materials

provided by Adobe to Customer under this Agreement. Customer may install and use the Foundation Components solely for purposes of facilitating use of the OnPremise Software in accordance with this Agreement, subject to

the following additional terms: Licensee’s right to design, implement and/or execute electronic processes that

use the On Premise Software in any way is limited to Short-Lived Processes unless Licensee has obtained a valid

license to the Production Software version of Adobe LiveCycle Process Management; (ii) Customer may install and

use an unlimited number of copies of the LiveCycle Designer software installed as part of the Foundation

Components, and its output, solely with the Foundation Components and specifically designed to operate with

the Foundation Components; and (ii) for each single (1) Deployment, Customer may install and use five (5) copies

of Adobe Flash Builder Pro software (or its successor) provided with the Foundation Components only if Adobe

Flash Builder Pro is installed as part of the Foundation Components and used in combination with the LiveCycle

SDK components to modify Additional Adobe LiveCycle Components and create Applications that integrate with

the LiveCycle Software components; all other usage of Adobe Flash Builder Pro is prohibited.

[Former Community Member]

With ES2.5 / 3 because LiveCycle was heavily Flex dependant (via Workspace) licenses were included but with ES4 there's no longer any mention of Flex licenses. Definitely check in with your Adobe rep though.

That said, if you are on the latest version of LC then I'd move over to the HTML5 based workspace and move away from the use of the Flash-based workspace.