It would be legal to run, e.g., Debian, OpenSolaris, under Hercules. It would be legal to run a licensed copy of, e.g., SLES, under Hercules. The bone of contention is that IBM doesn't offer licenses to run, e.g., z/OS, under Hercules.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Arthur [ibmmain.10.ats...@xoxy.net] Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Bringing up skills learned on z/OS Hercules in interview? On 9 Apr 2020 16:23:35 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:<026c01d60ec5$da038be0$8e0aa3a0$@gmail.com>) robhbrid...@gmail.com (Bob Bridges) wrote: >This is new to me. I've heard of Hercules, but I never >heard that it is considered, or that IBM would like it to >be considered, an illegal counterfeit. Is there any >ethical reason for that viewpoint? No, forget "ethical"; >I guess I can make up my own mind about that (and there'll >never be a consensus on it). Is there any ~legal~ basis >for the assertion? My understanding is that Hercules is perfectly legal and ethical. However, running an unlicensed, copyright operating system (such as z/OS) is quite a different story. So, as people said, running MVS 3.8 under Hercules is fine, but any later OS is problematic. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
