[Info-vax] Hobbyist license expiry and transition to new license

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-12-08 18:02:58 +0000, Dymaxion Development said:

> We have an OpenVMS hobbyist license that is set to expire on Dec 
> 31st/2021. We have applied a commercial permanent license and it is 
> showing as active. Just wondering if it will be okay to remove the 
> hobbyist license and let the permanent one takeover? Or can we leave 
> the hobbyist license in place and when it expires, it seamlessly 
> transitions over to the permanent one?

Presumably there has been an OpenVMS upgrade here, as the HPE licenses 
apply to HP versions, and the VSI licenses to VSI versions.

Unless an HPE license was scrounged from somewhere such as HPEFS, 
there's an OpenVMS upgrade happening here.

If you want to switch licenses, you'll generally need to manually 
register and manually load the incoming licenses and then unload and 
disable the outgoing licenses, and usually performing those two steps 
in that order.





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