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

[chris]

On 12/10/21 20:25, Joerg Hoppe wrote:
> Hi,
>> Almost all books and so on have something like "All rights reserved. No
>> portion of this document may be reproduced in any form without prior
>> written permission from the publisher."
>>
>> There are exceptions for quoting short portions for criticism, fair use,
>> and so on.
>>
> And tons of documents on bitsavers contain these clause.
> Nonetheless we still scan, publish and use them.
> Maybe we steal, but nobody complains and nobody has a financial loss.
>
> Surely had my VMS 4.0 source code fiche pack strict licenses on it, in
> 1985.
> Would HPE enforce these today? (I learned HPE still owns the OpenVMS VAX
> rights, VSI got Alpha, Itanium and x64).
>
> Whom to ask?
>
> Joerg

...and in the future, if vsi go broke, would all the current vms users
stop using vms when the current license expires ?. That's what should 
happen, after all.

You are already hostage to fortune, with considerable risk, compared to
other industry standard and current solutions, so VSI need to make the
term and conditions as flexible as possible...

Chris