>Bill Bradford wrote:
>
>Anybody know if Mentec (http://www.mentec-inc.com) has just
>dropped their hobbyist licensing/cdrom plans?
The Mentec Hobbyist license is *broken*. Clause 1. says:
'EMULATOR shall mean software owned by Digital Equipment Corporation that
emulates the operation of a PDP-11 processor and allows PDP-11 programs and
operating systems to run on non-PDP-11 systems.'
It's crystal-clear; you can't run under the hobbyist license except on a
emulator which is *owned by Digital*.
There ARE no emulators 'owned by Digital' (or Compaq or HP for that matter).
So the Mentec license is no help to anyone who wants to run pdp-11 OSes on
emulation (SIMH, E11 etc), and stay 100% legal. It's no help at all as
regards running on acutal -11 hardware.
It's a very wierd term to have in a license... I guess this term is a
hangover from the days when Bob Supnik was still at DEC, and SIMH might have
become an official DEC project.
Mike
http://www.corestore.org
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Received on Sun Jan 12 2003 - 18:10:15 GMT