License
Prior to version 4.0, NoMachine used the GNU General Public License for the core NX technology, while at the same time offering non-free commercial NX solutions for the enterprise, free client and server products for Linux and Solaris and free client software for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and embedded systems.
On December 21, 2010, NoMachine announced that the upcoming NX 4.0 release would be closed-source only.
Due to the free software nature of older releases of NX, the FreeNX project was started in order to provide the wrapper scripts for the GPL NX libraries. FreeNX is developed and maintained by Fabian Franz.
2X develops another commercial terminal server for Linux that also uses the NX protocol.
On July 7, 2009, Google announced their open-source NX server, Neatx.
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