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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <61ae67a5$0$693$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> >>>> Using commercial software has nothing to do with VMS licenses.
> >>>
> >>> Huh ?????????????????
> >>
> >> ????????
> >>
> >> Obviously VMS is commercial and its use involves VMS licenses.  That is
> >> not the topic here.  The question is whether the hobbyist license would
> >> cover open-source development on VMS for commercial software and, if so,
> >> if that would be the case only if the developer received no
> >> compensation.
> > 
> > I think David might be asking if you can run commercial software on
> > a hobbyist system.
> > 
> > For example, if you could somehow get hold of a legal copy of Word Perfect
> > for Alpha, could you run it on a hobbyist system for personal use ?
> > 
> > If so, that's a good question, and I don't know the answer.
> 
> A license is an agreement between the software vendor and the software
> user and can include limitations on software use.
> 
> VSI can and does limit use of VMS under CL. And given that an OS is
> used for everything on a system then it practically limits the use
> of the entire system.
> 
> So a CL licensed system cannot be used for anything commercial.
> 
> It does not make any sense for VSI to limit what SW can be installed
> on the system and what licenses they come under. And I do not remember
> there being anything like that in the CL license.
> 
> So I cannot see why you cannot install your paid WP software
> on the system - just note that even though the WP license may
> permit it then the VMS license still prohibits commercial
> work including in WP as WP use the OS.

Right.  "Commercial" with regard to VMS licenses means whether the owner 
of that license profits or not.  What other software is running on the 
system and what licenses it requires is completely irrelevant.