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What's the license? Couldn't find this in the article.

• mepian 4y ago
  This one: https://vmssoftware.com/community/community-license/agreement/ https://vmssoftware.com/community/community-license/agreemen... "Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the payment of any applicable license fee, VSI grants You a non-exclusive, non-transferable revocable license to Use (as defined below) the Software in object code form as provided to you by VSI, solely for Non-commercial purposes." "Non-commercial means not used for commercial advantage, direct monetary compensation, or indirect monetary compensation."
  • kjellsbells 4y ago
    Not for "indirect monetary compensation" is vague, and worth looking at closely. Say you run curious-os.blog and take patreon or some other monetary payment, and you write a post based on your experience running this OS. Are the lawyers going to come after you?
    • BirAdam 4y ago
      I had the exact same questions running through my mind. The wording is so ambiguous that I am afraid to do anything with it.
    • phendrenad2 4y ago
      I mean, you can always email the company for clarification before you do that.
  • usr1106 4y ago
    Indirect monetary compensation. So if you become an expert in OpenVMS and later take a job to earn money using your expertise you violated the license? Just a thought. Personally I am not interested spending my hobby time on closed source. If I want to understand something I want to be able to read the source. Not that I do it every day or even every week. But having the option is valuable.