| Summary: | app-emulation/virtualbox-ose license | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Vadim Kuznetsov (RETIRED) <vadimk> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) <jokey> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | swapon |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Vadim Kuznetsov (RETIRED)
2009-10-12 16:25:40 UTC
(In reply to comment #0) > I'm wondering if the license for OSE ebuild is set correctly. > > "The Open Source Edition (OSE) is released under the GNU General Public License > V2." > uh? well, ebuilds, official site and sources are reporting GPL v2.... you are right, sorry for the noise. Should not be virtualbox-ose-additions GPL licensed?
Should not be virtual-guest-additions PUEL licensed?
To me those two switched around: virtualbox-guest-additions uses OSE download
and virtulabox-ose-additions does not use OSE download.
Look:
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.0.8.ebuild,v 1.1 2009/10/06 19:53:18 patrick Exp $
inherit eutils linux-mod
MY_P=VirtualBox-${PV}-OSE
DESCRIPTION="VirtualBox kernel modules and user-space tools for Linux guests"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.virtualbox.org/"
SRC_URI="http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/${PV}/${MY_P}.tar.bz2"
LICENSE="GPL-2"
(In reply to comment #3) > Should not be virtualbox-ose-additions GPL licensed? > Should not be virtual-guest-additions PUEL licensed? > > To me those two switched around: virtualbox-guest-additions uses OSE download > and virtulabox-ose-additions does not use OSE download. > virtualbox-ose-additions are binary PUEL licensed additions for guest host (they are provided under an ISO image form), you need this package only with virtualbox-ose (virtualbox-bin already ships the same iso) virtual-guest-additions are guest host additions build (with pain :) from the virtualbox-ose sources, only for linux guest (for istance M$ additions are excluded from the source tree due licensing), and specifically for Gentoo Gnu/Linux maybe the "virtualbox-ose-additions" name is a bit deceptive, i must admit it, but i can guarantee that there are no licensing errors in these ebuilds |