[vbox-dev] VirtualBox Extension Pack going GPL?

[Huihong Luo]

As for vrdp, I've been working on using FreeRDP, not fully working yet, but it is very positive, also made the remoteUSB to work too.


For the remaining portions of the extension pack, I don't have any ideas. Basically, USB + VRDP considered to be done, provided a nice payment. It took me one year.


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 From: Oliver Loch <o.loch at gmx.net>
To: Huihong Luo <huisinro at yahoo.com> 
Cc: Joachim Schiele <js-vbox at lastlog.de>; "vbox-dev at virtualbox.org" <vbox-dev at virtualbox.org> 
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] VirtualBox Extension Pack going GPL?
 


Gimme your bank account I'll send you an Euro for your effort.


Am 19.07.2013 um 19:21 schrieb Huihong Luo <huisinro at yahoo.com>:

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.
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> 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?
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>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.
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>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
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>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?
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>== 2 ==
>we finance the 'oracle USB 2.0 codebase' GPL release via
 kickstarter 
>(how much would oracle want for their code?)
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>== 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
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>-- 
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>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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