[Info-vax] Python and various libraries updated

[David Goodwin]

On Friday, August 7, 2020 at 1:15:00 AM UTC+12, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 8/6/2020 3:07 AM, gerard.labadie at gmail.com wrote:
> > If a student or anybody wants to fix a bug or add a feature in a VSI port, without access to the sources, how does he do?
> 
> You obviously need access to the source (unless you feel comfortable
> doing a binary patch :-) ).
> 
> If change relate to generic source code => you get code code from and 
> submit changes to the open source project
> 
> If change relate to VMS specific code where open source project has 
> accepted changes from VSI => you get code code from and submit changes 
> to the open source project
> 
> If change relate to VMS specific code where open source project has not 
> accepted changes from VSI and VSI has released source code => you get 
> code code from and submit changes to VSI
> 
> If change relate to VMS specific code where open source project has not 
> accepted changes from VSI and VSI has not released source code => you can't
> 
> Regarding the 4th scenario then as stated in another post then I
> certainly expect VSI to comply with license terms. And it is also
> my impression that VSI is very much pro open source, so that their
> preference is scenario 2 is better than scenario 3 that is better
> than scenario 4. So I would expect scenario 4 to only happen if license
> allows it *and* VSI cannot legally release the source code (most
> like reason being that the code is owned by HPE and VSI only have
> right to use the code not release it).

I don't know about pro-open-source. That would surely mean actively negotiating with HPE to open-source all the abandoned layered products and anything else that they don't really make a profit on selling licenses for. Compared to what Sun would have gone through to open source Solaris this would surely be pretty easy.

VSI just seems to use open-source stuff where it makes sense to save time and money. Standard practice these days - no point in reinventing the wheel.