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

[gah4]

On Thursday, December 9, 2021 at 2:33:06 AM UTC-8, chris 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 ? 

(snip)
> 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. 

I don't know about DEC, but IBM has some links to old manuals and
such on bitsavers.  It seems that they didn't keep a lot of old stuff,
or just forgot where it was, and are happy to have it there.

More current manuals are on IBM's own site for download.