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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-12-08 18:25:22 +0000, Dymaxion Development said:

> Yes, an upgrade.

If you are running a VSI OpenVMS release with VSI layered products 
installed, then the (expiring) hobbyist licenses are of no use to you.

> They have a procedure that reports on expiring licenses and it's 
> nagging that the hobbyist license is expiring. I thought that by 
> removing the hobbyist license would negate the warning as long as the 
> permanent one is in place and enabled/active.

The HPE hobbyist licenses work only with the HPE products and versions.

The VSI licenses work only with the VSI products and versions.

> So they have applied the permanent non-expiring license already. You 
> are saying it is safe to disable the hobbyist license in advance? I 
> don't see an option to "unload" in the VMSLICENSE utility.

See HELP LICENSE for details.

Or see the OpenVMS docs.

https://docs.vmssoftware.com/vsi-openvms-license-management-utility-guide/

If you still have the HPE hobbyist license PAK file around (and didn't 
use VMSLICENSE to load each of the HPE hobbyist licenses, then look at 
that to see how that procedure manages older licenses, too.





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