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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rf4pdt$i8k$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.

Yes, of course, the $300 transfer was paid to DEC, but involved the 
transfer of license from one person to another, so obviously they can be 
transferred.

Or are you saying that if someone paid, say, $5000 for a license, he is 
not allowed to sell it---for any price---but can only agree to have it 
transferred (with someone paying $300 to DEC)?