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" _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
