[Info-vax] Licenses on VAX/VMS 4.0/4.1 source code listing scans

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <sos4b8$jrb$1 at inf1.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>, Joerg Hoppe
<j_hoppe at t-online.de> writes: 

> I digitized a pack of VAX/VMS 4.0/4.1 source code listings
> AH-BT13A-SE and AH-EF71A-SE, from micro fiche to PDF.
> Question is now: can I publish to the community or individuals?

IANAL, but very probably not.  Look at the terms and conditions which 
came with the listings.

> What is the license status for this old stuff (around 1985), VSI ?

VSI has nothing to do with it, because they have no legal rights to VAX 
stuff.

Legally, there is no such thing as abandonware.

Some of that VAX source code still lives on in VSI VMS, so in that sense 
VSI might be interested in your potential activities.  I don't know if 
they can legally prevent you from publishing them, but if you want to 
help "the community" it would be a good idea not to annoy the current 
owner of VMS.