[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Community License

[Dave Froble]

On 3/27/2024 1:39 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 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.
>

If you're maintaining PERL for VMS, then why are you messing with a CL?  You 
should be in the developer program.

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