Editing NX technology (section)

== NX derivatives and forks ==
Prior to version 4.0, NoMachine released core NX technology under the [[GNU General Public License]], and offered [[non-free software|non-free]] commercial NX solutions,<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.nomachine.com/enterprise | publisher = NoMachine | type = product details | title = NX Terminal Server and Remote Access Software}}.</ref> free client and server products for [[Linux]] and [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]], and free client software for [[Microsoft Windows]], [[macOS]] and [[embedded system]]s.

Due to the free-software nature of older NX releases, the FreeNX project was started to provide wrapper scripts for the GPL NX libraries.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://freenx.berlios.de/ |title= FreeNX – the free NX |publisher= Berlios |place= [[Germany|DE]] |access-date= 2014-02-14 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131111173425/http://freenx.berlios.de/ |archive-date= 2013-11-11 |url-status= dead }}</ref> FreeNX was developed and maintained by [[Fabian Franz]], but has not announced a release since 2008.<ref>{{Citation | place = DE | url = http://developer.berlios.de/projects/freenx/ | title = FreeNX | type = project page | publisher = Berlios}}.</ref>

[[2X Software]] has developed another commercial [[terminal server]] for Linux using the NX protocol.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.2x.com/terminalserver/features/ |title=2X TerminalServer for Linux Features |publisher=2X |access-date=2016-03-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120116195444/http://www.2x.com/terminalserver/features/ |archive-date=January 16, 2012 }}.</ref>

On July 7, 2009, [[Google]] announced their open-source NX server, [[Neatx]], as an internal project.<ref>{{Citation | contribution-url = http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/07/releasing-neatx-open-source-nx-servier.html | type = [[World Wide Web]] log | date = Sep 2009 |  title = Open source | publisher = Google | contribution = Releasing Neatx, an Open Source NX Server}}.</ref> The project is no longer actively developed. Its source code is available under the GNU GPL v2 license.<ref>{{Citation | contribution-url = http://code.google.com/p/neatx/ | contribution = Neatx | publisher = Google | title = Code}}.</ref>

[[X2Go]] is based on the 3.x NX libraries, but is not compatible with other implementations.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://x2go.org/ |title= X2Go – everywhere@home | date= 2013-12-28 |access-date= 2014-02-14}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | url = http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:faq:start | publisher = X2go | title = FAQ}}.</ref>  The client and server are released under a combination of GNU GPLv2 or later, and GNU AGPLv3 or later.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/sources:start#licenses_of_x2go | publisher = X2go | title = License information}}.</ref>