On 3/9/2020 12:20 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 4:32 PM John H. Reinhardt via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org
<mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
I would think that those that already have legal VAX PAKs/licenses could
still run them. It's just no *NEW* PAKs could be legally generated.
The hobby PAKs _and_ the licenses have a one-year expiration.
As a Hobbyist license holder since 2004 I am well aware. The language Bill
used implied that no one would be able to legally run OpenVMS on a VAX. I was
saying that those who had bought licenses previously (implying commercial and
other entities) should still be legal in running VAX OpenVMS even after HPE
shuts down their OpenVMS activities. Bill may have been intending just the
Hobbyist (and educational licenses, too) but the language was ambiguous.
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John H. Reinhardt