[Info-vax] PATHWORKS 32 Licensing (was: Re: unalphabetical help)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-01-06 14:16:58 +0000, John E. Malmberg said:

> On 1/6/2013 2:25 AM, Bart Zorn wrote:
>> 
>> AFAIK, every Alpha system came with licenses for 3 PathWorks
>> clients,
>> which included the use of PowerTerm. On the last PathWorks32 CD there
>> was PowerTerm V5.6, which included SSH. I am still using it, although it
>> has some issue on Windows7.
> 
> While I have seen some Alpha systems bundled with various with various 
> Pathworks and Pathworks 32 licenses, I have not seen a general bundling 
> of it.  Can you find any documentation of that?

Though there were almost certainly packages of hardware and software 
that included the PATHWORKS32 and other licenses, I've (also) never 
heard of any general bundling of the PATHWORKS 32 client licenses with 
OpenVMS.

I also don't see any relevent PW licenses listed in the LMF group 
table, which was (and probably still is) the easiest way to 
blanket-license a product, if the vendor (DEC, Compaq or HP) was going 
to offer that.

The PATHWORKS 32 client package was also — per the PATHWORKS 32 
Software Product Description 
<http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/pw32spd.pdf> — licensed for each PC 
involved, and not each server.  Which would mean any packaged licenses 
would have to be tied to particular PCs.

The PATHWORKS Server (Advanced Server) package was — per the OpenVMS 
Software Product Descriptuon 
<http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/spdalphaintegrity84.pdf> — a separately 
licensed package.  No other PATHWORKS references are included in the 
OpenVMS 8.4 SPD.  PATHWORKS Server has been superceded by the Samba / 
CIFS server package, and no license is required for Samba / CIFS server.

I can find no references the packages that Johnnie is referencing, and 
would (also) be interested in details.  (Not that I have any Microsoft 
Windows boxes in regular use here, but some folks I work with do still 
use Windoiws for some of their operations.)



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