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

[Scott Dorsey]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>In article <17b761f4-1aaa-4599-be48-6ddef93f3cbeo at googlegroups.com>,
>rljenkin at gmail.com writes: 
>
>> So I ask the VMS Sages of the Internet, where does that leave me now as far
>>  as usability of OpenVMS for VAX and all the related compilers / software I
>>  accumulated and tinker with for my hobby? 
>
>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.  If you want to be really careful and are aware that at some 
>point in the dim and distance past there was a rumour of a $300 transfer 
>fee, contact HPE and ask them how to pay it.

You cannot.  I have a box of PAKs which came with computers that I bought,
but I cannot legally use any of them because the licenses are not legally
transferrable.

You cannot legally purchase a commercial license from anyone but HPE, and 
when you purchase that license it is only legal for you to use, not
transferrable.  Read the fine print on the back.

THIS is the problem.  If someone from HPE would actually accept a transfer
fee, then we'd all be fine.
--scott
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