Bug 342895

Summary:	app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-additions license mixup?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jens <QCS4Gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Patrick Lauer <patrick>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	polynomial-c, swapon
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jens 2010-10-27 09:06:42 UTC

app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-3.2.10 has license PUEL
app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-3.2.10 has license GPL-2

...BUT...

app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.2.10 has license GPL-2
app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-additions-3.210 has license PUEL

Is there a mixup in licenses or do I understand the names of the packages in a wrong way?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
emerge --search virtualbox
Check the licenses in the search results :-)

Alternatively check
http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-additions
and
http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions
for the license tag.

Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-10-27 12:03:54 UTC

virtualbox-guest-additions is a package that is only necessary for a Gentoo-guest system (a Gentoo running inside of VirtualBox).
The package's files are compiled from source and the source files are taken from the VirtualBox-OSE source tarball which is licensed under the GPL-2.

The virtualbox-ose-additions package is an ISO image taken directly from the SUN/Oracle mirrors. It contains pre-compiled binaries for various operating systems (like the VirtualBox display-/mouse-drivers for Windows operating systems). The ISO image is only licensed under the PUEL license.

So no mixup here.