[Info-vax] Thoughts on VSI Community License Program

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 8/13/2020 6:34 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> On 8/13/2020 10:24 AM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
> <snip>
>> 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
> 

I remember.  In addition to Mr Egolf's note I've gone back and found that every email that was generated after that from 2013 until this year also said that the PAKs could be shared over multiple systems of that person.  See below. So there were conflicting instructions from HP/HPE.

> Hi John,
> 
> Please see attached for PAKs to use on your VAX/Alpha and Integrity server.
> The attached files is a DCL command file; to load your PAKs simply execute it
> 
> $ @Hobbyist-USE-ONLY-xxx.txt
> 
> Please let me know if you have any issues.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> /John
> 
> Note:
> You can use these PAKs on multiple installations you may have.
> There is no need to request PAKs per-instance of OpenVMS if you have more than one
> 
> Also note, for beginners or those looking for help/support,
> go to http://www.openvms.org/pages.php?page=Beginner
> 
> There are useful links and pointers to Newsgroups and Forums where you can post questions and get answers.
> 
> Pointer to kit download available upon request via email to me, specify hardware platform.
> 


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John H. Reinhardt