Long ago and far away there was a LARGE company that did similar things (ie Cobol) . It was some auditing company (IIRC) and they claimed that you must user their Cobol library. Anyway, I never bothered. I said if it abends then we will consider using their library. In the 10+ years I never needed it. And believe it or not the library was called sys1.coblib. And chuckle the two files were in IEHMOVE unloaded format. The auditors just cringed. Ed
> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Andrew Wilkinson <000004f504c2b946-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> > Subject: Permission to redistribute LE > Date: October 21, 2023 at 4:09:26 AM CDT > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> > > Dear List, > > "z/OS Licensed Program Specifications" includes a section permitting you to > redistribute modules from CEE.SCEELKED (among many other libraries) which > have been included your programs. > > This is not a surprise as I had always believed this to be allowed. What is a > surprise is that this permission first appears in z/OS Licensed Program > Specifications with z/OS 2.3 in September 2017. Prior to that, permission was > (and still is) in the notices at the end of "LE Vendor Interfaces". > > My research also uncovered a change in the IMS Licensed Program > Specifications at around the same time. I couldn't find the CICS Licensed > Program Specifications, so I gave up looking for a pattern. > > Does anyone know why it changed? Is there some legal reason? > > If you haven't guessed by now, I don't really care about any of this, but > Legal are on my case (pun intended) and I am at a dead end. I've a feeling > that the people on this List have long memories and might be able to help. > > A t D h V a A n N k C s E, > > Andrew > Andrew Wilkinson > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
