[Info-vax] What Will Drive More OpenVMS Adoption?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/3/2021 3:21 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2021-12-03 kl. 08:59, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
>> In article <sochlr$v4t$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
>> writes:
>>
>>> As far as I know, and I have not seen that change lately, Rdb is free
>>> to use for development
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> or non-commercial use.
>>
>> No.
>>
>>> That includes development
>>> for commercial use.
>>
>> Actually, ONLY development for commercial use.
>>
>> One is not allowed to use Rdb as a hobbyist, or for a non-profit entity
>> (which is by definition non-commercial), or whatever.
> 
> OK. I do not know of any good source for it (in either way), but I seam
> to remember from 6-7 years ago that it was OK for "hobbyist" use.

The license wording is:

<quote>
Oracle grants You a nonexclusive, nontransferable, limited license to 
internally use the Programs, subject to the restrictions stated in this 
Agreement, only for the purpose of developing, testing, prototyping, and 
demonstrating Your application and only as long as Your application has 
not been used for any data processing, business, commercial, or 
production purposes, and not for any other purpose.
</quote>

I am not a lawyer but it seems pretty straight forward to me:
- development and test is OK no matter whether it is a commercial
   software, open source or just for fun
- any usage to store real data whether it is commercial
   or non-commercial (incl. catalog of your books) is not OK

Arne