[Info-vax] State of the OpenVMS hobbyist program?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <qr6lmh$73t$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

> >> The problem is, VSI can only issue licenses, or whatever, for releases
> >> that VSI has offered.  They cannot issue licenses for any releases of
> >> VMS they did not offer.  Not "will not", but "can not".
> >
> > Probably "may not".
> 
> Perhaps this is a language issue?
> 
>  From what VSI has said about the HP agreement, they "CAN NOT" issue 
> licenses, patches, and such to any older version of VMS that they did 
> not themselves release.
> 
> I understand "may not" as something that is optional.

That would be "might not".  They probably physically can, but are not 
allowed to, hence "may not".