On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Rehan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Sure, whatever. I have no idea how what you say is relevant.
>
> The question actually comes down to what license they are using. It's
> not really obvious but then again I didn't look that closely once I
> became sceptical and then also because it requires 'registration' to
> download.
>
> If it is based on virtualbox OSE then there should be, at least, a
> source code download as well as a binary download, based on the GPL
> licensing. No? At least for the gpl parts of the code. Requiring
> registration to download also seems odd. That is more common in the
> non-gpl world than in the gpl world.

VMlite is based on VirtualBox Pro edition, so they have no obligations
to release code.

> Sure, if it is a genuine setup then all well and good although a bit
> odd. It just seems to me they are setting up to 'sell' products when in
> fact they may not be able to in the current form due to licensing
> restrictions.

No problem with restrictions, because they pay for VBox Pro.

-- 
-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"

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