FWIW, I'm looking for a non-hobby license. On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Ian King <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not a lawyer - and it is my understanding that the OpenVMS Hobbyist > license allows you to run the current/latest version (7.3 for VAX) and all > earlier versions. I've never had a problem using their PAKs with 6.2. > > The 'termination date' will interact with LMS and the license won't work. > There is a checksum to keep you from just changing the date string. The > OpenVMS Hobbyist license is so easy to acquire, if you're not using it for > commercial use just go get one. :-) -- Ian > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Dan Gahlinger [[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 10:04 AM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Simh] OT: VMS licensing > > As far as I know, > > the license is not specific to the version of vms from what I've used. > That is the same license on 5.3 has worked with 7.2 and vice-versa. > > transfer-ability might be iffy depending on the contracts, not sure on that > one, > the official authority on that would be HP now. > > I bought a vax off ebay and it came with licenses and the official paper > documents, > including the sales invoices, contracts and everything, which the seller > transferred to me. > > I'm not sure HP cares about old vms 5.3 stuff or older (or maybe they do), > but it's surprising to see them > trying to sell the media (CD) for the old VMS for like $4 grand! > not for a license, not for anything, just the damn media! > > So even if you own an old vax like I do, and have the license, and the > software is on it, > if I wanted a replacement CD, HP wants me to pay them $4,000 ... that's just > crazy. > of course the old support contracts and stuff have long expired. > > Also note many licenses have a "termination" date, and you might not be able > to freely > transfer them from the vax to simh, etc - another thing for HP to take care > of. > > so while it's physically possible to use an old license with simh (barring > termination dates), > it might not be entirely legal to do so... > > Dan. > >> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 06:57:23 -1000 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Simh] OT: VMS licensing >> >> Off-Topic but this seems like a good pool of people to ask. >> I hope its acceptable use. >> >> I'm looking for information on licensing VAX/VMS. >> Would it be possible to get a legal license to VMS 5.3? >> Are licenses tied to a particular machine or a particular >> time frame? If someone was selling an old VAX that >> ran VMS 5.3, would the license still be valid for that machine >> today? Would it still be valid after the sale? >> Would it be transferable to other hardware or even a simulator? >> >> -- >> Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Simh mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh >
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