Hi.
On 2017-01-14 10:06, Warren Young wrote:
I'm the current maintainer of the PiDP-8/I software project
<https://tangentsoft.com/pidp8i/wiki?name=Home>. I've been going through
the files we distribute to make sure we have proper licenses for them
and have come up short on a few things: the TSS-8 and ETOS disk images.
I've simply been unable to find any indication online that they were
ever licensed for free redistribution.
I'm posting here because this list was recommended as a place where
someone might know whether these OSes were ever formally licensed for
free redistribution.
Fair enough. This is a good place to find old farts... Be careful what
you ask for, though. As sometimes the answers might be both complicated,
and people might get annoyed by youngsters... ;-)
Since TSS-8 was a DEC product, I'm hoping that it was released under the
"hobbyist" licenses they offered at some point. I expect I could sign up
for the current OpenVMS hobbyist license, but I have no interest in
agreeing to it just to see if it covers this software. Perhaps someone
who has agreed to it could confirm this guess? The web site seems to
just talk about VMS, which I have no interest in.
The OpenVMS hobbyist license and program are only targeted at VMS.
Nothing else have ever been associated with it, so you can immediately
ignore it for anything related to any DEC machine with the name "PDP"
somewhere in it.
That said, I am pretty sure that DEC did release OS/8 at some point.
However, I have no recollection of ever seeing DEC say anything about
TSS/8. So I suspect you might be out of luck, unless someone knows of
any generic release done of PDP-8 software from DEC.
As for ETOS, that wasn't a DEC product, so I have no better guess for
where to go trying to find a license for it other than web search
engines, and I've already struck out there.
I do not believe it was ever released by its owners. And since you need
special hardware on real machines, there was never much demand from
anyone to even try to get it released, as it was normally that if you
had the hardware, you also had the software.
So I think you're out of luck on that one too.
Johnny
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