[Info-vax] New VSI Community License Program for x86

[bill]

On 4/2/2024 9:16 AM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 
> On 4/2/24 7:22 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2024-04-01, John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> 
>> wrote:
> 
>>> I have also done a LICENSE /ISSUE/PROCEDURE and copied the supplied 
>>> licenses to my previous OpenVMS x86 systems
>>>
>>
>> Until someone in VSI gets into a "you are not allowed to do that 
>> !!!!!!!!"
>> frame of mind and says it is against the terms of the Community 
>> Licence. :-)
> 
> I would ask them to show me where in the terms it says that.  IANAL, but
> the terms describe "use" of the license and don't say anything about how
> you get the license onto the system.  It seems the vmdk thing is
> intended to be a way to get newbies up and running quicker, and it may
> very well be good for that.  As far as I can tell the delivery mechanism
> is completely orthogonal to the terms of the license.
> 


As far back as I can remember (which goes all the way back
to DEC)  No license was freely transferable.   I am not about
to go and read the license now (TL:DR) but I am sure it's still
in there somewhere.

bill