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Re: virtual box



What Stephen said. It may suggest a degree of ambivalence towards the
*spirit* of the GPL, but it doesn't affect the legal position. Ditto
the irritating 'please register this product' box that appears when
you install or upgrade vbox.

John


On 09/11/2007, Olive <olive001@tele2allin.be> wrote:
> The version of Virtual Box included in Debian is distributed under the
> GPLv2. So far it's good. But I see in
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads that
>
> We do request that anyone intending to redistribute the Open Source
> Edition contact us first.
>
> What do you think of that. It does not seem to be compatible with the
> GPL and could even be non free.
>
> Olive
>
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