[Info-vax] Releasing VMS openly, was: Re: vax vms licenses

[Scott Dorsey]

> HPE _can't_ release VAX/VMS openly, at least without investing in a
> lot of resources, money, and time to review the VMS codebase and
> any licence agreements with third parties that might have IP within
> VMS.

This is certainly the case for later versions, certainly anything with
DECWindows in it.  Lots of constraints there.

I doubt it's the case for VMS 4.7 though, which was all in-house before
the Era of Obsessive Code Reuse.
--scott


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