Add VirtualBox Extension Pack to repositories

[esaumell]

Hi,

Would be nice to have VirtualBox Extension Pack as a CentOS 6 rpm package on the VirtualBox repo.

Would be nicer if it gets automatically installed when downloading/upgrading to avoid having to do something like:

VBOXVERSION=`VBoxManage --version | sed -r 's/([0-9])\.([0-9])\.([0-9]{1,2}).*/\1.\2.\3/'`
wget -q -N "http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/$VBOXVERSION/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-$VBOXVERSION.vbox-extpack"
VBoxManage extpack install --replace Oracle*.vbox-extpack

[Socratis]

You can't have the ExtPack installed automagically with VirtualBox, since they're covered by different licenses. Otherwise it would be an integrated part of VirtualBox.

You already have a workaround. Assuming that the license covers you.

[esaumell]

OMG!

 § 2 Grant of license. Oracle grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license
without fees to reproduce, install, execute, and use internally the Product on Host Computers for your
Personal Use, Educational Use, or Evaluation. “Personal Use” is use solely by the person downloading the
Product from Oracle on a single Host Computer, provided that no more than one client or remote computer is
connected to that Host Computer and that client or remote computer is used solely to remotely view the
Guest Computers. “Educational Use” is any use by teachers or students in an academic institution (schools,
colleges and universities) as part of the institution’s educational curriculum. “Evaluation” means testing
the Product for up to thirty (30) days; after expiry of that term, you are no longer permitted to use the
Product.

All rights not expressly licensed by Oracle are hereby reserved.

I didn't read it! As far as I understand, that means that we can't use VBox Ext. Pack as part as VirtualBox as a corporate solution unless users set up VBox Ext. Pack themselves. Right?

[Socratis]

Not even that. IANAL, but having each user of MegaCorp install the ExtPack individually, wouldn't qualify as "Personal Use". I think that you interpret it wrong. "Personal" is not the same as "Individual".

[esaumell]

Neither IANAL too, but this is what I can understand from:

“Personal Use” is use solely by the person downloading the
Product from Oracle on a single Host Computer, provided that no more
than one client or remote computer is connected to that Host Computer
and that client or remote computer is used solely to remotely view the
Guest Computers.

I'm going to stop installing VBox Ext. Pack and to escalate that issue in my organization. This ticket can be closed.

Thank you very much.

[Frank Mehnert]

Sorry, this will not happen. The VirtualBox Extension Pack has a different license, see here. It is not allowed to redistribute the Extension Pack. Even a company-internal repository for the Extension Pack is illegal. See here to get more information about licensing.