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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/20/20 6:27 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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)?
> 

That's the way I always understood it to be.  It's a contract, not
a physical product.  Real contracts require agreement by both parties.

bill