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. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 New: Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.6 for LiveCode here http://qery.us/ce 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. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com > LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
