[DECtalk] thinking of legal gray areas with licenses

[Tom Morris]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 11:36 AM <joshknnd1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I think at this point decTalk is more like abandoned freeware and or shareware. I guess its like freeware or shareware with source code.

There's really nothing "grey" about it. The code is copyrighted
intellectual property. It was shared by someone who had legal access
to it as part of their job, in violation of their employee agreement.

It might be possible for someone to convince the copyright holders to
release it under an open source license or to provide free binary
licenses like was done with the VMS Hobbyist program, but, as far as
I'm aware, none of that has happened.

Whether or not anyone is going to pursue offenders is a separate
matter. It's possible that no one cares enough to bother.

Tom