[Simh] License transfer of OpenVMS to SIMH (legally!)

[Glynn Stanton]

Interesting one.

Perhaps some clarification that the OpenVMS hobbyist licenses are perfectly
"legal". Just not supported and cannot be used for commercial purposes.

This is more than enough for the people on this list. I view simh and
charonVAX as complimentary not competing products. If you want a fully
supported platform and are willing to pay for it, run charonVAX and HP will
support OpenVMS on top of it. If you want to develop, play, have fun, use at
home etc etc, use simh with an OpenVMS hobbyist license. You get what you
pay for :)

Just my .2c


-----Original Message-----
From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com]
On Behalf Of Rich Alderson
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 3:43 PM
To: simh at trailing-edge.com
Subject: Re: [Simh] License transfer of OpenVMS to SIMH (legally!)

> From: Peter Moreton <petermoreton at hotmail.co.uk>
> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 09:59:49 +0000

> HP allow the transfer of OpenVMS licenses from physical VAX's to the
> commercial Charon-VAX product, as per the URL below:

> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/sri-charon-vax-emulator.html 

> Wouldn't it be great if these licenses were also applicable to OpenVMS
> running under SIMH - even if there was no official support, just an
agreement
> that if you buy the license, you remain legal?

> Should someone (me?) open a dialogue with HP to see if this can be
arranged?

NO!

There is already a method of obtaining free hobbyist licenses for OpenVMS
and
for layered products, carefully negotiated long ago by DFWLUG.  Every time
someone tries to "fix" things, this kind of license is endangered by calling
it
once again to the attention of the accountants.

It is also possible to get a free hobbyist license for CharonVAX, if you
want
to run that.  If you're looking to run something for business purposes, why
aren't you buying a license for CharonVAX with support, and transferring
your
hardware licenses to that?  If you're trying to run a business on SimH VAX,
I'd say you're looking at the wrong thing.  In any case, why mess up what is
already in place, to no good purpose?

If it ain't broke, don't fuck with it.

                                                                Rich
Alderson
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