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

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Sat Dec 11 08:19:13 EST 2021


In article <sp09f5$ap3$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>On 2021-12-10, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> On 12/10/2021 1:25 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2021-12-10, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Case in point.  We at Consolidated Data insist that all our customers have
>>>> support for their commercial use VMS systems.  That is our ethics.  However,
>>>> should the time come when there is nobody to pay for such support, and the
>>>> license terminates, and VMS stops working, then I will bypass the licensing to
>>>> keep my customer in business.  That is my ethics.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Even ignoring the legal issues with that (and you know my position in
>>> this general area :-)), do you have the knowledge needed to actually
>>> do this bypass ?
>>>
>>> If you don't, where do you intend on getting this knowledge from ?
>>
>> I'll defer answering that question, for now.
>>
>
>So are you saying you don't actually have the knowledge needed to create
>the patch needed to bypass the LMF ?

No *patch* required. ;)

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