[Info-vax] VMS VAX License for personal Microvax 3100 Model 40

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-07-31 kl. 23:22, skrev Robert A. Brooks:
> On 7/29/2022 3:47 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2022-07-29 20:04, abrsvc wrote:
> 
>>>  From what I recall, VSI bought the rights to Alpha and Itanium along 
>>> with the rights to create the X86 variants.  VSI does not have the 
>>> rights to do anything with VAX versions at all.  HP retains the rights 
>>> to allow/disallow any licensing for VAX machines or emulated VAXes.  All 
>>> licensing for these are handled through HP Financial.  This includes 
>>> both the purchase of licenses as well as transfers.
>>
>> That was the belief of a lot of people, but VSI (or people from VSI) 
>> publicly corrected that belief in this newsgroup some time ago. They do 
>> have the rights also to the VAX bits. But there isn't even a snowballs 
>> chance in hell that they will build a new VAX version, it has been said.
>> And VSI cannot issue any licenses for HPE versions of VMS, which is why 
>> the VAX is in such a limbo.
> 
> What Johnny has written is 100% correct.
> 

VSI doesn't have any right to issue any licenses to *any* VMS/OpenVMS
version, no matter the platform/architecture, if it isn't a version
issued by VSI. Such as any Alpha or IA64 version that was issued
from HP/HPE (or earlier).

It has to be a VAX kit built by VSI, and that (as has already been
said) will simply not happen.

That VSI should take the work to build an VAX kit just to satisfy
a few hobbyists, is ridiculous...