[X2go-dev] NoMachine's licensing

Heinz-M. Graesing heinz-m.graesing at obviously-nice.de
Wed Feb 2 17:18:35 CET 2011


Hi Erik,

Am 02.02.2011 16:54, schrieb Erik Auerswald:
> Why? AFAIK there are no plans to change X2Go from GPL to some non-free
> license.

Just to mention a thought of us:
Some time ago we've discussed what it would mean for the project to
change from GPL to AGPL
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License).
But this should be discussed in public.

> To summarize:
> 
> NoMachine said that starting with version 4 the NX software will be
> closed source only:
> http://www.nomachine.com/news-read.php?idnews=331

As far as I know:
You can request a CD with all used OSS components used by NX4.

Regards,

Heinz



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