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Hello Debain Legal team,
I'm in doubt about the licenses of the packages virtualbox-ext-pack and virtualbox-guest-additions-iso in the Debian repositories. Please see my
email below to the Debian Virtualbox team.
kind regards
Christian
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Subject: License question virtualbox-ext-pack vs. virtualbox-guest-additions-iso
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 13:54:01 +0100
From: Christian Kuka <
[email protected]>
To:
[email protected]
Hi all,
In our team we just came across the question which license apply to the virtualbox debian packages and we were a little bit confused by the
copyright files of the virtualbox packages.
- For virtualbox-ext-pack, the copyright file is mentioning BSD-3-clause
as the license:
https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//contrib/v/virtualbox-ext-pack/virtualbox-ext-pack_6.1.40-1_copyright
- For virtualbox-guest-additions-iso, the copyright file is mentioning Virtualbox-PUEL as the license:
https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//non-free/v/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso_6.1.40-1_copyright
However, according to the description of virtualbox-ext-pack at
https://packages.debian.org/sid/virtualbox-ext-pack as well as at
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ only the "VirtualBox
Extension Pack" is licensed under the
"VirtualBox Extension Pack Personal Use and Evaluation License" and
VirtualBox base package (full source code and platform binaries) are
licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2. Thus, "virtualbox-ext-pack" should mention PUEL in the copyright file and "virtualbox-guest-additions-iso" should mention a different license?
Further, if that is the case, should "virtualbox-ext-pack" be moved to
non-free instead of contrib?
Is there a misunderstanding on our side or is there already a
clarification on the Debian pages?
kind regards
Christian
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<p>Hello Debain Legal team,</p>
<p>I'm in doubt about the licenses of the packages
virtualbox-ext-pack and virtualbox-guest-additions-iso in the
Debian repositories. Please see my email below to the Debian
Virtualbox team.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>kind regards</p>
<p>Christian<br>
</p>
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Hi all,<br>
<br>
In our team we just came across the question which license apply
to the virtualbox debian packages and we were a little bit
confused by the copyright files of the virtualbox packages.<br>
<br>
- For virtualbox-ext-pack, the copyright file is mentioning
BSD-3-clause as the license:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="
https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//contrib/v/virtualbox-ext-pack/virtualbox-ext-pack_6.1.40-1_copyright">https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//contrib/v/virtualbox-ext-pack/virtualbox-
ext-pack_6.1.40-1_copyright</a><br>
<br>
<br>
- For virtualbox-guest-additions-iso, the copyright file is
mentioning Virtualbox-PUEL as the license:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="
https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//non-free/v/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso_6.1.40-1_copyright">https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//non-free/v/
virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso_6.1.40-1_copyright</a><br>
<br>
<br>
However, according to the description of virtualbox-ext-pack at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="
https://packages.debian.org/sid/virtualbox-ext-pack">https://packages.debian.org/sid/virtualbox-ext-pack</a> as well as at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ">https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ</a> only the "VirtualBox
Extension Pack" is licensed under the<br>
"VirtualBox Extension Pack Personal Use and Evaluation License"
and VirtualBox base package (full source code and platform
binaries) are licensed under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. Thus, "virtualbox-ext-pack" should mention PUEL in the
copyright file and "virtualbox-guest-additions-iso" should mention
a different license? Further, if that is the case, should
"virtualbox-ext-pack" be moved to non-free instead of contrib?<br>
<br>
Is there a misunderstanding on our side or is there already a
clarification on the Debian pages?<br>
<br>
<br>
kind regards<br>
<br>
Christian<br>
<br>
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