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

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <524d234a$0$61585$c3e8da3$f017e9df at news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> > copy something), not trade marks or patents.  If HP stop caring about
> > VMS, then I could write my own operating system and call it VMS 
> 
> Hasn't HP already not renewed the "VMS" trademark, keeping only Palmer's
> silly "OpenVMS" ?

Maybe, I don't know, but that is irrelevant here, because it is a 
trademark while the right to distribute copies of licenses and software 
is, duhhh, copyright.