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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/5/2021 7:42 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <soibcl$1ee$1 at dont-email.me>, Chris Townley
> <news at cct-net.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> On 05/12/2021 11:30, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> In article <soi3r4$8c2$1 at dont-email.me>, Chris Townley
>>> <news at cct-net.co.uk> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 05/12/2021 08:57, William wrote:
>>>>> Some sort of free license so that open source developers can do
>>> OpenVMS ports and so that sites like GitLab can give projects an option
>>> of including OpenVMS in CI pipelines.
>>>
>>>> Isn't the community/hobbyist license just that? Or the ISV scheme?
>>>
>>> Hobbyist?  No.  ISV?  Probably.
>>>
>>
>>   From the VSI Website:
>>
>> With the VSI Community License Program, members of the community can
>> download OpenVMS for free for learning, open source development, and
>> exchanging knowledge of the operating system on Alpha and Integrity
>> systems. This program replaces the HP Hobbyist program.
> 
> The wording has changed a bit.  But it is still non-commercial.
> Open-source can be non-commercial, but it can also be commercial.

Yes - some open source is commercial - and would not fall
under CL terms - but they would definitely fall under ISV
terms.

But the 99.9% of the open source for VMS that is non-commercial
will be fine with CL.

Arne