xpdx According to Wikipedia (yes the best of sources) OpenVPN is licenced under the GNU GPL. How do they get away with charging for "client licenses" and where is the branch of OpenVPN that removes that restriction? I think unless I'm missing something big, someone is pulling a legal fast one over on the GPL and the OS community. Please don't delete this post just because you disagree. I am genuinely seeking answers. Seems to me they shouldn't be charging any license fees at all, and if they were that someone out there would have simply forked the code and removed the restriction. Why hasn't this happened? Or has it and I just missed it? Or is it some fancy legal trick that someone came up with? :?: Please, these are honest questions, they may have an annoyed tone but that's only because I'm feeling a bit annoyed. I am not a troll. I genuinely want to know.
Traffic See the different versions of "OpenVPN" and their associated licenses:OpenVPN Community Edition OpenVPN Access Server
xpdx I missed that thank you. So the versions are exactly the same feature wise (or at least based on the same code)just one comes without the need for licenses and support. Do I have that right? Where do I download the code for the Access Server? Or is released on another license? Of course having used exactly 0 lines of code from the GPL version pf OpenVNP?
Traffic OpenVPN Community Edition is Free Open Source Software. OpenVPN Access Server is not. How you choose to work with that is up to you ...
xpdx So here is how you could have answered this question: "One Mr. James Yonan wrote and owns the OpenVPN code and the copyright and also the company selling the product. Mr. Yohan owning the code makes it not a violation of the GPL." It would have been nice if that was explained somewhere on the website and/or when I politely asked the question I had to research to find it. I am releasing this answer quoted above under the free license without restriction, you may copy and paste my answer for future questions so that you don't have to muster any manners or polite consideration. You're welcome.
