OpenVMS hobbyist license renewal.

[Timothy Stark]

Folks,



A few days ago, I submitted renewal request to HPE because my license will
expire in Jan 2021. I expect final renewal with end of year 2021
expiration.



I entered valid information on
<https://www.hpe.com/h41268/live/index_e.aspx?qid=24548>
https://www.hpe.com/h41268/live/index_e.aspx?qid=24548



I did not receive paks from HPE yet. When will HPE start to email us new
PAK licenses?



Thanks,

Tim

[John H. Reinhardt]

Post by Timothy Stark
Folks,
A few days ago, I submitted renewal request to HPE because my license will
expire in Jan 2021. I expect final renewal with end of year 2021
expiration.
I entered valid information on
<https://www.hpe.com/h41268/live/index_e.aspx?qid=24548>
https://www.hpe.com/h41268/live/index_e.aspx?qid=24548
I did not receive paks from HPE yet. When will HPE start to email us new
PAK licenses?
Thanks,
Tim

Unfortunately you have probably missed the boat. HPE stopped responding to license requests around last May when they sent out a notice for the final updates to Java. No one has gotten a response from the HPE web site nor any response from direct emails to the ***@hpe.com address.

That said, the final HPE licenses sent out were good until 1-Jan-2022 and were identical sent to everyone who responded in time. There was a later email exchange which Hari at the OpenVMS Engineering that gave an unofficial permission to share the final PAK set to those who might ask later on. I have sent copies to a few people. I f you email me off list I will send you a copy.

If you are running VAX, that is your only legal option. If you are running Alpha or Integrity then your best bet is to apply to the VSI Community License Program at <https://vmssoftware.com/services/community-license/> and get their V8.4-2L1 distribution

[gah4]

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If you are running VAX, that is your only legal option. If you are running Alpha or Integrity
then your best bet is to apply to the VSI Community License Program
at <https://vmssoftware.com/services/community-license/> and get their V8.4-2L1 distribution

Yes I have a VAX that I would like a license for.

I had one up to a few years ago, but forgot to renew it more recently.

[Stephen Hoffman]

At first glance, I thought that was a TECO command string! :-) :-)
Modem noise in this day and age?

Seemingly missing or corrupted headers.

Whether there's also a news server issue?

Prolly that the Content-Type: and Content-Transfer-Encoding: entries
are below an apparent header corruption, in the posting text and not
the header.

Which is prolly an issue with the news client being used; with pan2.

pan2 0.139 is ~eight years old.

Seems pan2 0.146 is current, per: http://pan.rebelbase.com

And not everybody is using fixed-width display fonts, efforts toward
ASCII art aside.

So... yeah... line noise in the posting headers.