Bug 365643

Summary:	app-emulation/virtualbox-additions-4.* License wrongly stated as PUEL
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Steffen Schaumburg <steffen>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) <polynomial-c>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	kripton, patrick, proxy-maint, swapon
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.6/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.0.6.iso
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Steffen Schaumburg 2011-05-01 23:21:40 UTC

The license for the additions, at least for v4, is the GPL2. This was said in their IRC channel (not an official statement ofc), and I confirmed it by extracting the amd64-windows additions from the image and looking in license.rtf. That file lists only GPL2, but according to the official download site everything is also available as PUEL.
I can check further files on the image if you wish.

Cheers, Steffen

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

2011-07-17 10:47:01 UTC

Would be really helpful if we can get an official statement about this.

Comment 2 Steffen Schaumburg 2011-07-17 11:04:36 UTC

Surely the license.rtf in the image is a legally binding statement?

Comment 3 Steffen Schaumburg 2011-07-17 11:08:11 UTC

That's for the GPL2. I don't think its relevant whether the PUEL is still allowed as a choice tbh.

Comment 4 Pablo Cholaky 2011-08-21 19:00:04 UTC

It's GPL-2ized, you can see this here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

    VirtualBox platform packages. The binaries are released under the terms of the GPL version 2.
        VirtualBox 4.1.2 for Windows hosts x86/amd64
        VirtualBox 4.1.2 for OS X hosts x86/amd64
        VirtualBox 4.1.2 for Linux hosts
        VirtualBox 4.1.2 for Solaris hosts x86/amd64 

Please someone with access modify the PUEL license requeriment

Comment 5 Pablo Cholaky 2011-08-21 19:00:32 UTC

requirement*

Comment 6 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-06-18 12:09:47 UTC

+  18 Jun 2013; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
+  virtualbox-additions-4.1.24.ebuild, virtualbox-additions-4.1.26.ebuild,
+  virtualbox-additions-4.2.10.ebuild, virtualbox-additions-4.2.12.ebuild:
+  Fixed license as reported in the long overdue bug #365643 by Steffen
+  Schaumburg.
+