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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/11/21 8:19 AM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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. ;)
> 

True.  There is always PAKGEN.  Not legal, but we have had enough
people here express their lack of concern that it is obviously
seen as a potential solution.

bill