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

[Doug Phillips]

On 7/20/2020 9:34 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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
> 

There is this: http://enterpriselicense.hpe.com/SLT

# Hewlett Packard Enterprise
#  Software License Transfer
#
# Hewlett Packard Enterprise recognizes that you, our customer, take
# licensing seriously, and that you want to be assured you are in total
# compliance. The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software License Transfer
# process will offer you that assurance.
# The Software License Transfer policy applies only in the case of
# ownership changes for used Hewlett Packard Enterprise software license
# products.
# ...
# Enterprise Group Products (Servers, Storage, and Networking)
# Transfer is permitted for:
#    HP3000, e3000 servers, HP9000, Integrity servers
#    EVAs, StoreVirtual, 3PAR
#    Systems with OpenVMS VAX, OpenVMS-Alpha and Tru64-Unix products
# ..."

There are links to forms and also some email addresses. The page shows a 
2019 copyright but I haven't explored it any further.