[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Community License

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-03-26, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/26/24 6:53 PM, Jim Duff wrote:
>> On 27/3/24 10:01, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>>
>>> On 3/26/24 5:39 PM, Jim Duff wrote:
>>>>
>>>> *I'm* certainly confused.  The email says "Your current license is 
>>>> valid through August 22, 2024"
>>>
>>> Which e-mail would that be?  The announcement about discontinuing Alpha
>>> and Integrity community licenses doesn't appear to have anything like
>>> that statement. It did say the existing licenses would be renewed one
>>> more time "in August" -- presumably August 2024.
>> 
>> I have to assume that when I get a personal email entitled "Updates to 
>> your Community License" that references "Your current license", it's 
>> referring to the only Community License I currently have, the one for 
>> x86_64.
>
> Ah, ok.  I just got a rather generic e-mail entitled "Updates to VSI
> Community License Program," not the personal one you got.  It occurs to
> me I don't even have a current license since my applications in
> September and October 2023 were never either accepted or rejected.  For
> OpenVMS x86 I've been using the registration loophole where a prior
> account on the service portal provides the ability to download a PAK.
> If that's over then I guess I'm done.  I applied for this new vmdk thing
> today and this time didn't even get an automated acknowledgement, so
> it's looking like this one may be ignored like my previous two applications.

I wonder what happens to Perl on VMS in that case ?

Are VSI packaging your Perl version in x86-64 VMS or are they maintaining
their own Perl port ?

Simon.

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