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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <spalql$6uf$1 at gioia.aioe.org>,
helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply))
writes: 

> In article <spaji6$671$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 
> 
> > On 12/14/2021 12:35 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> > > In article <sp8itv$nn5$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
> > > <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> > >
> > >> I guess it's useless.  There are some, (like those against Cobol), who will
> > >> never admit that a vendor has a moral, if not legal, responsibility to customers.
> > >
> > > A vendor has to live up to the contract and should not do anything
> > > illegal.  No more, no less.
> >              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Is that how you want your doctor to treat you?
> 
> The contract with my physicians specify that they will do everything 
> medically possible to improve my condition.  I have no gripe with that.
> 
> > > Moral responsibility?  Who gets to define "moral"?  That open's
> > > Pandora's box.
> > 
> > No, it's called "do the right thing".
> 
> Which can be, and is, used to justify all sorts of things.

Of course, there are times when one should do the right thing even if it 
is illegal, mostly when the regime which made it illegal is itself 
illegal or illegitimate.  OK to assassinate Hitler?  Sure (at least if 
one can be reasonably sure that it won't make matters worse.)

But running software illegally, for whatever reason, is not one of them.