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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/9/21 5:33 AM, chris wrote:
> On 12/09/21 09:14, gah4 wrote:
>> On Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 9:40:07 PM UTC-8, Joerg Hoppe wrote:
>>> 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?
>>> What is the license status for this old stuff (around 1985), VSI ?
>>
>> Seems like the same question as for all the stuff on bitsavers.
>>
>> You could send it to them, and leave it up to them to figure out making
>> it publicly available.
>>
>> As well as I know, bitsavers hasn't been sued for anything on the site.
> 
> It may be interesting to many for historical reasons and the sources
> were never enough to build a working systems, so there is perhaps some
> fair use argument to publish.
> 
> May not be strictly correct, but you could anonymously upload to a site
> that publishes anyway. There are plenty of sites around like that and
> sometime you just have to do what needs to be done...
> 

See my previous comment in this thread.  :-)

bill