Rev/Livecode project and GPL Licenses

[Mark Schonewille]

Richard:

<quote>OpenVZ is free open source software, available under GNU GPL.

OpenVZ is the basis of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, a commercial virtualization solution offered by Parallels. OpenVZ project is supported by Parallels.</quote> http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page

I'm not sure that this is the entire answer, but I do think it is very relevant.

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On 18 apr 2011, at 21:47, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Mark Schonewille wrote:
> 
> > The trick is to provide a quality of services that's worth paying
> > for, including compiled binaries, while at the same time keeping
> > the open-source community at a big distance away from your commercial
> > product. You could also try to focus your open-source project on Unix
> > flavours while focusing your commercial project on Windows.
> >
> > An example is Parallels, which seems to be commercially feasible,
> > even though it is an open-source project.
> 
> My copy of the "End User License Agreement For Parallels (R) Desktop" included with v6.0 reads like a standard proprietary license and the word "GNU" doesn't appear anywhere in it.
> 
> Are you sure it's GPL?
> 
> Always eager for a bargain and comfortable with make files, I searched Google for "Parallels open source", and was able to turn up only a reference to an APS cloud service and this row from 2007:
> 
> 
>  Parallels annoys open-source faithful over code release
> 
>  Parallels Inc. has released the source code for the Wine software
>  used by Parallels Desktop 3.0 on Monday -- but only after weeks of
>  prodding by Wine developers and negative publicity on the Slashdot
>  and Digg IT forums.
> 
> <http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9026139/Parallels_annoys_open_source_faithful_over_code_release>
> 
> 
> As far as I can tell, it's only a relatively small part of the Parallels product that's open source, a derivative of WINE used for graphics acceleration, which is covered under the LGPL so it's a bit more lenient than GPL (though not so lenient that it avoided annoying the FOSS community when the mods weren't made available <g>).
> 
> Even though I do most of my VM work with VirtualBox these days, I'd love to be wrong on this.  If you have anything showing Parallels switching to GPL it would be very good to know.
> 
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> Richard Gaskin
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