[Info-vax] VAFS, GFS2 and the GPL, was: Re: VSI OpenVMS Roadmap: V9.2 is x86-64 only

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-10-08 kl. 21:02, skrev Chris Townley:
> On Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:42:54 UTC+1, Simon Clubley  wrote:
>> On 2020-10-08, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>> Den 2020-10-08 kl. 14:20, skrev Simon Clubley:
>>>>
>>>> Just to let people know: so far, I have not had any reply from VSI.
>>>>
>>>> I asked again yesterday in case the original query had been forgotten
>>>> about, but I have not heard anything back from that either.
>>>>
>>>> I, for one, would like to know how VSI have achieved this. It could
>>>> make for quite an interesting discussion.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I do not understand why you expect that VSI would reply to you about this.
>>
>> Because based on their own roadmap, what VSI are doing is very unusual.

Anything VSI does is "unusual" in the IT world when thinking of
the market share of OpenVMS.

>>
>> Note that my working assumption is that VSI _have_ found some way to
>> do this that they believe still complies with the GPL.

Agree. Whatever they do, I just assume that it is OK. I will not ask.