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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/9/2020 8:21 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-10-08, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It would be good if people were told this.  Would you want to
>> to be betting your business on a company that was setting
>> themselves up for a potentially expensive legal battle?
> 
> And that is exactly why I am surprised that VSI have not answered,
> especially if it is a nice simple answer.
> 
> A good number of companies get uneasy when the licence and usage terms
> on a product they are interested in are not clear, and for good reasons.

That may be the only way to get an answer from VSI.

Call them and say that you want to buy 100 licenses if you can get
GFS2 but that you need evidence that it is OK.

Then VSI senior management will tell legal to provide an
explanation.

A comp.os.vms discussion is just not the same.

Arne