<div dir="ltr">I find it hard to believe having to download the extension pack for each release is that much of a PITA. Releases don't come out that frequently and even on the slowest connections the file is not that big. I don't see how it interrupts an "upgrade process". It takes maybe 30 secs to install. <br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Huihong Luo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:huisinro@yahoo.com" target="_blank">huisinro@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><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>
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<hr size="1"> <font face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Joachim Schiele <<a href="mailto:js-vbox@lastlog.de" target="_blank">js-vbox@lastlog.de</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:vbox-dev@virtualbox.org" target="_blank">vbox-dev@virtualbox.org</a> <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><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>
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