[vbox-dev] Patch to support installation on non-Sun/Oracle Solaris hosts

[Ramshankar]

On 06/24/15 04:52 PM, Jim Klimov wrote:
>   Hello Ramshankar,
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>>   I'll take a look at the patch, but releasing it as you did originally under the MIT license
>   > rather than GPLv2 is what would be suitable for us to merge right away.
>>   Let me know if this is possible.
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>   Yes, sure. There was a bit of logical conflict between
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>   1) VirtualBox site suggestions of releasing patches under MIT license, and
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>   2) Changing an original file (under GPLv2) should generally not change the existing license.
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>   Anyhow, the March brew of the patch was explicitly under MIT, and today's fix for OI Hipster changes is also trivial (beside examples in comments, it amounts to under a dozen symbols in the sed expression).
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>   I don't have a strong opinion about picking either of the licenses, but I do have a strong desire to upstream these fixes rather than maintain them separately and apply on every upgrade ;) So if this requires reinstating the MIT license for the patch file - perfectly fine with me, consider it being so. Should I change the GitHub wording as well?
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>   FYI, make sure to take a look at the most recent state on GitHub - I fixed the patch to apply to 5.0rc1 as well as 4.3.28, a few minutes ago.

Thanks. Yes clearly stating that it is licensed as MIT causes us the 
least amount of complications for us.

I will be looking at what's published here:
https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxconfig_sh/blob/master/vboxconfig.sh.patch

Regards,
Ram.



>   Thanks,
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> От: Ramshankar <ramshankar.venkataraman at oracle.com>
> Дата: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 16:15
> Тема: Re: [vbox-dev] Patch to support installation on non-Sun/Oracle Solaris hosts
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>> Hi,
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>>   I'll take a look at the patch, but releasing it as you did originally under the MIT license rather than GPLv2 is what would be suitable for us to merge right away.
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>>   Let me know if this is possible.
>>
>>   Regards,
>>   Ram.
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>>   On 06/24/15 12:44 PM, Jim Klimov wrote:
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>>   Hello all, >  >  Earlier in March I posted a patch that fixes installation of VirtualBox on non-Oracle Solaris hosts (e.g. OpenIndiana and OmniOS). Lest it be lost in the list archives, I moved the patch (now licensed as GPLv2 to match VirtualBox licensing) and an accompanying README to GitHub: https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxconfig_sh >  >  Feel free to add the changes into the upstream distribution, so such hackery won't be needed ;) >  >  Thanks,  >  Jim Klimov >  >
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