Parallels 7 Sells Chameleon To Run Mac OS X!
Today, September 1th, Netkas – The hacker behind the SMC Emulator that allows normal people to run Mac OS X encrypted parts in non-Apple systems – denounced the unaware use of Chameleon (Which is under General Public License) in the new version of Parallels Desktop.
According to Netkas, the software is opensource and should not be included in the famous PAID virtualization software without permission, having the License of the bootloader been disrespected, since Parallels has a closed license.
In a fast blog-post, Netkas asks for the sourcecode of Parallels as determined by GNU/GPL, the future of a possible lawsuit or use negotiation now falls in the hand of the Voodoo Team, project mantainer.
Unbelievable!
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PS: Why is Parallels following me (@cartrinet) and other boot-related hackintoshers on twitter?!
UPDATE: Please Check Parallels’Public Statement on this post’s replies, new post about the releasing sources with Parallels’ answers soon (2AM here 
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Cartri,
it is not entirely true that they need permission to include chameleon in Parallels. GPL grants them rights to do whatever they like, provided that they give access to source code of all derived work(s). They are not even require to distribute source code together with Parallels. Providing the source on request would be perfectly compliant with GPL.
Thats true, indeed they are being requested.
Let’s all ask them on twitter, until they make an official statement.
sorry for the spam filter. they did this statement some comments bellow. Also a new post has been created with it
Chameleon (original one) provided with Apple BSD license, guys. Not GPL.
Chameleon is GPLv2 ( http://forge.voodooprojects.org/p/chameleon/source/tree/HEAD/trunk/GPL_V2_LICENSE ) modification over original APSL Darwin BootLoader / Boot132. So in case it carries both licenses, the original over its base code and the GPL over what was added.
What have been copied was the progress over darwin BL, the GUI created by modbin, for exemple.
http://www.parallels.com/eu/support/desktop/licensing/
True, did see that yesterday.
Hi all – we wanted share an official statement from Parallels Inc. on the use of Chameleon in Parallels Desktop 7:
The Chameleon 2.0-RC2 code which we use is licensed under the terms of an Apple Public Source License. On the Parallels third-party code use page (http://www.parallels.com/support/desktop/licensing/) we explain the use of the Chameleon project code. As per the license rules, we’re preparing our sources for publication and will provide them around the time of our official product availability.
If you have any additional questions, please send an email to license@parallels.com.
I will make a new post including your statements asap. Thanks for showing care.
Could you please make clearer about modbin’s GUI?
Personally i just think everybody should use anything with information; I guess the “polemic” is raised over this because the actual chameleon trunk has GPLv2 license and an older version of chameleon being used (as a bios modder I understand that when you have firmware emulation, having the older, as it doesnt mess too much with ACPI as newer versions is better) “for free” in a paid program that even blocks its use under PCs running OSX, what doesnt seem to be very coherent since it is using (and charging for) a technological development created with the single intuit of making OSX run on PCs (non-apple).
PS: sorry for spam filter delays on the blog reply system, and thanks for being informative about the subject, anything else from the company is highly appreciated by anyone who, like you, made changes to chameleon, be it small or bigger. Any comment on the “hackintosh block” subject in this context would be pleasant to hear. A new post should include the stated and whatever you would like to make public on the subject.