[Info-vax] The Doom of VAX VMS Hobbyist Licenses?

[Dave Froble]

On 7/20/2020 11:26 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <rf4bq9$3kq$2 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>
>>> Try to get a commercial license.  Buy it from someone.  If someone sells
>>> it to you, and you bought it in good faith, I don't see any legal
>>> problems.
>>
>> Actually Phillip, that is illegal under the license terms.
>
> What is illegal?

A DEC software license is not transferable by the licensee.

Your $300 transfer was something DEC did, not the licensee.

Having been a DEC reseller in the dim past, I'm well aware of how 
licenses worked.


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