Not a lawyer, so grain of salt. Ubuntu, the OS, is not a commercial product by itself. Ubuntu is offered as a free and open source OS. If you are testing non-commercial offerings of Ubuntu, as part of community work, then it should be fine to use VMWare Player, Virtualbox, or other items for non-commercial work. Community work is, by definition, not commercial.
If you are working on a commercial product, for instance, testing Ubuntu Pro features offered by Canonical, or an appliance that will be sold to a customer, then you may be in violation. If you are an employee of Canonical employed to work on the OS, things get dicey _but_ there are options available (we have licenses available). Or if you are using it as part of your job (say, you're a sys admin, and part of your job is to vet Ubuntu, and you just happen to also contribute upstream when you find a bug). Then you should talk to your workplace about getting you a license. TL:DR if it's solely community work, it shouldn't be a breach. Other things would be case by case. On Sat, May 14, 2022, 10:50 Aaron Rainbolt <arraybo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, that's what I needed to know! Virt-manager is more than sufficient > for my needs, and I can always cough up the $150-$200 if I really want to > do VMware testing. > > Thank you for your time and help! > > On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 3:51 AM Shane O'Sullivan <hits...@tenmilesout.net> > wrote: > >> It's a breach of the EULA. I would highly recommend installing >> virt-manager as a suitable alternative. >> >> On Fri 13 May 2022, 08:17 Aaron Rainbolt, <arraybo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I am digging deep into the world of Ubuntu development and am trying to >>> make sure my alpha and beta testing is as effective as possible. I also >>> don't want to cash out an arm and a leg for expensive software to do so. >>> I've been using virt-manager (QEMU/KVM) for testing on virtual machines, >>> and while things seem to be going well, I'd like to test on other >>> hypervisors too for the sake of catching as many bugs as possible. >>> >>> VMware provides their Workstation Player product for free, *for >>> non-commercial use.* Problem is, I can't figure out if using VMware for >>> Ubuntu testing would be considered commercial use. One one hand, I'm not a >>> Canonical employee, nor am I using VMware for employment purposes, so that >>> would be non-commercial, but on the other hand, I'm helping a large >>> enterprise build an OS that is used for commercial purposes, so that seems >>> like commercial use. >>> >>> Do any of y'all do QA testing in the free version of VMware Workstation >>> Player? Does anyone know if this is a legal use of VMware? >>> >>> Thank you for your help and time. >>> >>> (Note: I *think* these kinds of questions are what this mailing list is >>> for, but if I'm misguided and should have sent this to >>> ubuntu-devel-discuss, please let me know and I'll direct these kinds of >>> questions there instead.) >>> -- >>> ubuntu-devel mailing list >>> ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com >>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel >>> >> -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel >
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