[vbox-dev] VirtualBox Extension Pack going GPL?

[Louis King Jr]

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.


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Huihong Luo <huisinro at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* Joachim Schiele <js-vbox at lastlog.de>
> *To:* vbox-dev at virtualbox.org
> *Sent:* Friday, July 19, 2013 8:50 AM
> *Subject:* [vbox-dev] VirtualBox Extension Pack going GPL?
>
> dear vbox developers and users,
>
> i would like to get the proprietary parts, especially the VirtualBox
> Extension Pack, open source. most of VirtualBox is already open source,
> which is a good thing in several regards:
> - quality of distro integration and
> - debugging
>
> getting basic OSE virtualbox support is straight forward and better than
> any other solution i tried (i'm on linux, i tried vmware/libvirt) for
> desktop virtualization.
>
> in contrast to OSE virtualbox, installing VBox extension pack is a PITA:
> - http://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_VirtualBox_on_NixOS
> - http://forums-web2.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-717099-start-0.html
> - http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/VirtualBox/Installation#Extension-Pack
>
> it usually forces me to manually download the extension pack which
> interrupts my whole upgrade process. and i have to do that on each
> upgrade of my system which really costs a lot of time. so here is my
> proposal:
>
> we try to get the 'USB 2.0 support codebase' of the 'VirtualBox
> Extension Pack' open source!
>
> VirtualBox Extension Pack consists of:
> * support for USB 2.0 devices
> * VirtualBox RDP and PXE boot for Intel cards
> * VirtualBox Remote Desktop Protocol (VRDP) support
> * Experimental support for PCI passthrough on Linux hosts
>
> i would like to start with the USB 2.0 support becoming open source and
> i think we have several options:
>
> == 1 ==
> oracle releases the 'oracle USB 2.0 codebase' as GPL for free - is that
> an option?
>
> == 2 ==
> we finance the 'oracle USB 2.0 codebase' GPL release via kickstarter
> (how much would oracle want for their code?)
>
> == 3 ==
> we have the specification so we could finance a 'third party GPL USB 2.0
> codebase', we could finance this via kickstarter as well
>
> --
>
> i would like to have comments on this, especially from oracle.
>
> thanks to oracle/sun for making virtualbox open source in the first
> place - i really love your software.
>
> best wishes,
> joachim schiele
>
>
>
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