[Info-vax] Hobbyist program on The Register

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 4/10/2024 9:14 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
> 

As mentioned elsewhere, those were HP(E)'s rules and for commercial use.  Even HP(E) never required Hobbyists to pay license transfer fees.  They gave you one set of PAKs per architecture and let you put them on as many as you wanted.  So long as it was non-commercial.

Did you read the Community License Agreement I posted the link to?  You might want to before arguing points that don't exist.

Again,  https://vmssoftware.com/community/community-license/agreement/

If you find a section that says I can't take the license PAKS from the vmdk they supply to run another x86 OpenVMS installation as a hobbyist then let me know.  I can't see one.


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John H. Reinhardt