[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program Update

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 8/14/20 10:06 AM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
> On 8/14/2020 8:43 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 8/12/20 9:39 AM, VMS Software Inc. wrote:
>>> Dear community members,
>>>
>>> After the community license was officially released, we saw many 
>>> questions regarding the license agreement and decided to review the 
>>> agreement once again and answer the questions before sending out any 
>>> licenses to avoid misunderstanding. Today we published the amended 
>>> agreement and answered the most frequently asked questions here: 
>>> https://forum.vmssoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=116&p=426#p426
>>>
>>> We are now replying to license requests.Thank you for your patience.
>>>
>>> Yours respectfully,
>>>
>>> VMS Software Community License Team
>>>
>>
>> Got home from vacation to find mine waiting in my INBOX. Downloaded
>> the stuff from the Community page.  Now I just need to figure out
>> what a .ZIPEXE is.  Somehow I have a feeling it isn't going to do
>> anything on my Ubuntu system.  :-(
>>
>> bill
> 
> The ZIPEXE are self extracting ZIP files.  They only run on VMS 
> unfortunately.  Which is a bootstrapping problem if you don't already 
> have one running.
> 
> That is probably another thing we may have to ask VSI change and have 
> them put plain "ISO" disk images in the download area that can be 
> written to disk or used as a virtual disk.
> 

Good that I got an explanation, but bad in that I have no working
VMS that can do it.  I doubt they would run on my VAX.  :-)

bill