[vbox-dev] kbuild and virtualbox license issues

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi Knut


>The file in question is NOT included in any program.  As the 'tst-'
>prefix indicates, it's a testcase.  It's purpose is triggering a SIGSEGV
>scenario in the preprocessor pass of cl.exe.  I'll move it to a 'tests'
>subdirectory with a separate COPYING file to make it clearer.
>
>Kind Regards, bird.


well, it is included into the source tarball, so it might be considered
for some people "unredistributable".

But I'm not a lawyer, so I can't say for sure this is an issue
(in Debian e.g. we check source tarballs for copyright issues, not
binaries)

G.


On 2016-09-07 10:00 AM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hi VirtualBox Developers!
>
> (feel free to forward to kbuild folks, I don't remember/know how to reach them)
>
> Seems that the current kbuild source contains some GPL-2 only code, that comes from
> virtualbox and oracle guys
>
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#v2v3Compatibility
>
> a GPL-3+ licensed program, can't include GPL-2 only software.
>
> One of the files is:
> src/kWorker/tst-1-c1xx-xcpt.cpp
> +/*
> + * Copyright (C) 2006-2016 Oracle Corporation
> + *
> + * This file is part of VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), as
> + * available from http://www.virtualbox.org. This file is free software;
> + * you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
> + * General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software
> + * Foundation, in version 2 as it comes in the "COPYING" file of the
> + * VirtualBox OSE distribution. VirtualBox OSE is distributed in the
> + * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any kind.
> + *
> + * The contents of this file may alternatively be used under the terms
> + * of the Common Development and Distribution License Version 1.0
> + * (CDDL) only, as it comes in the "COPYING.CDDL" file of the
> + * VirtualBox OSE distribution, in which case the provisions of the
> + * CDDL are applicable instead of those of the GPL.
> + *
> + * You may elect to license modified versions of this file under the
> + * terms and conditions of either the GPL or the CDDL or both.
> + */
>
>
> can you please remove it, or change the license?
>
> thanks,
>
> Gianfranco
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