[Info-vax] Hobbyist program on The Register

[bill]

On 4/10/2024 10:08 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 4/10/2024 8:32 AM, bill wrote:
>> On 4/9/2024 10:55 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
>>> On 4/9/2024 8:38 PM, bill wrote:
> 
>>>> Well, you had someone talk about taking the licenses off of the
>>>> distributed VM and using it on another.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Been there, did that as reported by me in another thread.  It kept my 
>>> two
>>> earlier x86 OpenVMS systems running without having to migrate my 
>>> changes.  Of
>>> course, the vmdk licenses were fewer that what was on the previous 
>>> CLP version
>>> by 31. But a good number of them were covered by the HAOE blanket 
>>> license.
>>> The ones that weren't were mostly odd things very few used.
>>
>> And you don't see that as "license bypassing" or a license violation?
> 
> No!  I do not!
> 
> Example:  User has VMS running, legally, on a system. User decides to 
> install VMS on another disk, on that same system, issues the licenses 
> using the license issue capability in VMS, and then installs the 
> licenses on the new VMS disk, and then runs off that disk.
> 
> It is just moving the licenses from one system disk to another on THE 
> SAME SYSTEM!
> 

But he is not moving them from one disk to another on the same
system.  He is moving them to a different system.  As far back as
I can remember that required a license change and a transfer fee.

bill