19 Mar
2002
19 Mar
'02
8:17 a.m.
The lmf bit of the filename suggests
Licence Management Facility to me.
DEC never intended this as anything
other than a tripwire (at least on
OpenVMS) meaning that although
you could fairly easily get around it,
you'd have a hard time arguing in court
that you just typed in something by
accident! Giving away the sources
would have lowered the "energy barrier"
too much, so it was always dropped
from the OpenVMS Source Listings
distribution. AFAIK, all LMF implementations
were based on the same core ideas, so
it would have been hard to release
the innards on any platform.
The LMF bits are the same. The license fields match and the
checksum calculations are the same between the operating systems.
--
Eric Dittman
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