And from what I've been told the LE also precludes doing open source development ☹
Unless that has changed. Lionel B. Dyck <>< Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com Github: https://github.com/lbdyck “Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jay Maynard Sent: Friday, March 25, 2022 09:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z/PDT Actually, the z/PDTLE license *does* prohibit using it to develop software to be sold. On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 9:52 AM Tony Harminc <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 at 07:33, Joseph Reichman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > At the time of my re-newel I asked my rep Why do I have to pay so > > much money When the learners edition is only a few hundred dollars > > > > And they responded well that’s because you have z/PDT personal > > edition > and can sell software you develop > > I doubt that the personal edition licence prohibits you from selling > software that you develop. But even if I am wrong on that... > > > If so what makes me different than an ISV > > There is a process to sign up with IBM as a z ISV. Have you tried it? > Last time I looked at it it wasn't too onerous. IIRC you do have to > have some evidence that you have a product either for sale or in the > pipeline. > > Tony H. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Jay Maynard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
