[Info-vax] [Attn: HP Employees] PDP-11 OS hobbyist licensing

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-10-01, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Are you able to quote chapter and verse wrt "emulators owned by DEC"?
>

Yes. I have a copy of that licence and went looking for it online. This
was the first link I found after searching for text in the licence:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/01/msg00039.html

If you want it in it's original context in which most people would have
first seen it (you may need a magnifying glass :-)):

http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/pdp11emu.html

> I was aware of goings on related to a couple of PDP11 emulators inside DEC,
> and neither of them was SIMH. Doesn't mean that SIMH activity wasn't going on
> in parallel, mind you. But I have no recollection of word of DEC offering SIMH
> ever reaching UK customers.

The licence says _owned_ by DEC. It doesn't say anything about been _sold_
by DEC. :-) It was a personal project by it's original author while a DEC
employee.

Simon.

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