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by samoit 1343 days ago
I thought VirtualBox was free/opensource to use, even for comercial use. I will change to kvm/qemu
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johannes1234321 1343 days ago
VirtualBox itself is GPL3 licensed. However the Addon for fast USB etc. which is an extra download is proprietary. To my understanding Sun tried to open source that as well, but it contained third party code they couldn't open up.
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tssva 1343 days ago
As of this release the USB stuff is now included in the opensource base.
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johannes1234321 1343 days ago
Oh nice, then I don't need that extension anymore. (RDP, disk encryption, netboot seem to be proprietary only, which aren't things I use on that layer in the stack)
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