[BlueOnyx:16965] Re: BlueOnyx 5209R BETA released

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Roger,

> I have a question regarding the intended availability of the OpenVZ templates.
> In short: will the new templates be made available for general usage,
> or should they be seen as part of the Aventurin{e} platform.

No problem. Have fun and find me some bugs. :-)

It's like this: Aventurin{e} users can easily download them via YUM.
They are paying clients who also happen to support BlueOnyx via the
commercial sister project. So they get it the easy way, because they've
earned it.

Anyone else is free to use BlueOnyx (in whichever form we released it)
as long as the copyright and license terms that BlueOnyx is released
under are followed:

http://devel.blueonyx.it/pub/BlueOnyx/licenses/SUN-modified-BSD-License.txt

That totally covers all the forms of usage (except in nuclear
facilities) and says: Do with it what you want, but don't be a dick and
don't rip out our copyright notice.

As for the modified BSD license: I'm just mentioning it because the
other day I found one who had cloned parts of our work, released it on
github and violated all three simple conditions outlined in the license.
Which is just bad sportsmanship and lack of the most basic ethics.

Which reminds me: I'm going to upload the OS template itself to the
BlueOnyx mirrors as well to make it easier for people to grab. That way
you don't have to extract it from the RPM on the Aventurin{e} mirrors.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber