Re: Comments on my license reuse plan

On Mar 17, 8:39 am, rdeinin...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Deininger)
wrote:
In article <1174070824.667892.36...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

"tadamsmar" <tadams...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I wonder if this plan will work

I plan to put the licenses from 2 dead Alphastation 400s onto a DS10
600. And then, remove all the DS10 600 licenses.

If this works, I plan to by a DS10 600 or DS15 with no licenses and
use the old DS10 600 licenses on the new box.

I wonder if this will work? One concern I have is that the
Alphasstations don't have a separate Motif license but the DS 10 600
does, so maybe Motif will not work. I guess I could try to just buy
a Motif pak in that case. And, there are other paks that will not be
there.

DW Motif was usually provided as part of the NET-APP-SUP-* PAK bundled
with OpenVMS Alpha systems of that vintage.

While your plan to re-use PAKs may work, you should check your Terms and
Conditions to see if they allow you to freely move PAKs from system to
system.

A PAK is not a license. Your software license (i.e. contract) gives you
the right to use the software, and is embodied in the terms and conditions
that you got from the vendor when you purchased the software. If you buy
a software upgrade license, you typically don't get a new PAK, but the
purchase modifies your contract.

We have looked high and low and cannot anything called contract, but
we bought all our systems and software legally. I cannot find
anything in any of our paperwork that limits our licenses or paks to a
single machine.

Looks like transfers within a company, redesignations as they are
called, are legal if they are valid:

http://licensing.hp.com/swl/view.slm?page=xfer

.

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