[Info-vax] Hobbyist program on The Register

[Dave Froble]

On 4/10/2024 10:14 AM, bill wrote:
> 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
>

1) Those were DEC's rules.  Not sure what rules VSI has.

2) Who said anything about a different system?  I mentioned "same system".

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