[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Community License

[Craig A. Berry]

On 3/27/24 8:43 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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 ?

They are not maintaining their own port.

I guess I'll see what results from my application for the new community
license.  I could probably qualify as an ambassador based on work I've
done in the past, but it's a little vague what the expectations are and
I don't have a lot of confidence they can actually process applications
for anything based on recent experience.