<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I do have a complete implementation of the USB 2.0 (fully compatible to vbox), if someone pays, I can submit my code as open source.</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Joachim Schiele <js-vbox@lastlog.de><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> vbox-dev@virtualbox.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, July 19, 2013 8:50 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [vbox-dev] VirtualBox Extension Pack going GPL?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>dear
vbox developers and users,<br><br>i would like to get the proprietary parts, especially the VirtualBox <br>Extension Pack, open source. most of VirtualBox is already open source, <br>which is a good thing in several regards:<br>- quality of distro integration and<br>- debugging<br><br>getting basic OSE virtualbox support is straight forward and better than <br>any other solution i tried (i'm on linux, i tried vmware/libvirt) for <br>desktop virtualization.<br><br>in contrast to OSE virtualbox, installing VBox extension pack is a PITA:<br>- <a href="http://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_VirtualBox_on_NixOS" target="_blank">http://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_VirtualBox_on_NixOS</a><br>- <a href="http://forums-web2.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-717099-start-0.html" target="_blank">http://forums-web2.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-717099-start-0.html</a><br>- <a href="http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/VirtualBox/Installation#Extension-Pack"
target="_blank">http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/VirtualBox/Installation#Extension-Pack</a><br><br>it usually forces me to manually download the extension pack which <br>interrupts my whole upgrade process. and i have to do that on each <br>upgrade of my system which really costs a lot of time. so here is my <br>proposal:<br><br>we try to get the 'USB 2.0 support codebase' of the 'VirtualBox <br>Extension Pack' open source!<br><br>VirtualBox Extension Pack consists of:<br>* support for USB 2.0 devices<br>* VirtualBox RDP and PXE boot for Intel cards<br>* VirtualBox Remote Desktop Protocol (VRDP) support<br>* Experimental support for PCI passthrough on Linux hosts<br><br>i would like to start with the USB 2.0 support becoming open source and <br>i think we have several options:<br><br>== 1 ==<br>oracle releases the 'oracle USB 2.0 codebase' as GPL for free - is that <br>an option?<br><br>== 2 ==<br>we finance the 'oracle USB 2.0 codebase' GPL release via
kickstarter <br>(how much would oracle want for their code?)<br><br>== 3 ==<br>we have the specification so we could finance a 'third party GPL USB 2.0 <br>codebase', we could finance this via kickstarter as well<br><br>-- <br><br>i would like to have comments on this, especially from oracle.<br><br>thanks to oracle/sun for making virtualbox open source in the first <br>place - i really love your software.<br><br>best wishes,<br>joachim schiele<br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>vbox-dev mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:vbox-dev@virtualbox.org" href="mailto:vbox-dev@virtualbox.org">vbox-dev@virtualbox.org</a><br><a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev" target="_blank">https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>