[Info-vax] Thoughts on VSI Community License Program

[John E. Malmberg]

On 8/13/2020 10:24 AM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
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> You will note in the first paragraph it does plainly state that HP "will 
> grant you the right to use OpenVMS on a SINGLE computer".  So I guess 
> those of us running VMS clusters havbe been in technical violation of 
> the agreement all this time. I've looked back as far as October 2003 (my 
> first license from Montagar) and even those had the same clause, in fact 
> it looks identical to the above with the exception of "Compaq" for "HPE".
> 
> I have also inquired about the lack of compiler license PAKs for 
> Integrity and am awaiting an answer.

The first hobbyist PAKs for the OpenVMS operating system had the serial 
number encoded in the license PAK.  They were also set with attributes 
that they could not be shared with another node in a cluster.

You had to make a separate request for each system that you had.

The instructions were to make up a serial number for emulators.

When HPE started issuing the PAKs directly, they removed the serial 
number encoding and made the operating system PAKs sharable.

Regards,
-John