[PVE-User] I thought Proxmox VE was free?

[Robert Brockway]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, obj at jltechinc.com wrote:

> That was my understanding as well, but I was getting beat up on
> SpiceWorks.com, where others viewed this as saying Proxmox VE was not free,
> therefore they were not interested in pitting it against the likes of VMWare
> and Hyper-V.

Hi.  Proxmox VE is licensed under GPL v2, the same license that the Linux 
kernel is licensed under.

A license is normally called 'open source' if it is endorsed by the Open 
Source Initiative (OSI).  The GPL v2 is indeed endorsed by OSI.  It is 
also endorsed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) (who originally wrote 
it).

Anyone saying that Proxmox is not free and open source software (FOSS) is 
recommended to educate themselves before commenting further.

Referring to the original question over support - it is common to sell 
support licenses for FOSS.  It is one of the key revenue generation 
methods I identify here:

http://www.practicalsysadmin.com/wiki/index.php/Open_source

Cheers,

Rob

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