[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Community License

[Craig A. Berry]

On 3/27/24 2:58 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-03-27, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
>> On 3/27/24 8:43 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:

>>> 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.
>>
> 
> So IOW, VSI are packaging something you have created as part of their
> base installation.

They are using the standard distribution as well as some kit-building
procedures I created.  This is all open source and they are not doing
anything wrong here.

What I have been doing for a long time that no one else has been doing
is fairly frequent builds of the current development branch followed by
fixing upstream whatever got broken since the last time I built.  That
constant maintenance is why the standard distribution even works on VMS.

> Given what you have provided to VSI for free, you should not be having
> to apply for anything. :-(

Thanks for the note of support. I don't really feel that anybody owes me
anything, but "why are you making it harder for me to help you?" is a
question that's been rattling around in my head.

I'm not sure what problem it is they are really trying to solve.
Somehow there was too much interest and not enough "engagement"?  If
Arne had put all his nice example code on a VSI-hosted wiki instead of
his own web site would that have convinced them that the community is
doing enough for VSI?

Meanwhile I still don't have even an auto-reply from applying for a new
community license.