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

[Volker Halle]

John.

the OPENVMS-HOBBYIST license is just a 'placeholder', it does not have any licensing functions at all. No OpenVMS I64 product will ever check that license name !

I tested this by unloading OPENVMS-HOBBYIST, I can still login. If I then unload the OPENVMS-I64-FOE license, I cannot login anymore over the network, only console login works. Loading the OPENVMS-HOBBYIST license again does NOT change this. Only loading OPENVMS-I64-FOE allows login over the network again.

Did you install the OPENVMS-I64-FOE license yourself ? If not, the person who has entered this license has probably deleted or disabled the old OPENVMS-I64-FOE (with a termination date of 1-JAN-2022), that came with the OpenVMS Hobbyist license kit. You can probably check with LICENSE LIST/HISTORY OPENVMS-I64-FOE

So just disable the OPENVMS-HOBBYIST in the LMF database and issue a LICENSE UNLOAD OPENVMS-HOBBYIST - and you're done. No more warning notices every week and the system will continue to work after 1-JAN-2022.

Volker.