Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (242 mails)

[Alexey Eromenko <al4321@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Michal Šebeň <mseben@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Alexey Eromenko <al4321@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Michal Šebeň <mseben@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, the RPM SPEC files which were proprietary in the past, are now
> > Open-Sourced too with v4.0.
> > As for the kernel-modules - I like the openSUSE approach very much,
> > without dkms.
> >
> > One *huge* difference: v4.0 has now fully Open-Source Additions, which
> > should be shipped with openSUSE.
> > Previously Guest Additions were not shipped with openSUSE, because
> > they were 95% Open-Source with 5% proprietary code mixed.

> hm which additions do you mean ?,
> virtualbox-ose-guest-kmp-*, xorg-x11-driver-virtualbox-ose and (if I
> remember correctly also ) virtualbox-ose-guest-tools are  already on
> liveCD ...

Some things were proprietary:
-Installers for Guest Additions (windows + RPM SPECs)
(openSUSE project re-created new RPM SPECs for openSUSE guest, but not
for other guests)
-Shared Folders for Windows Guests were proprietary, now they OSS
-openSUSE project never shipped Guest Additions for Windows Guests

So now you can take the whole binary "GuestAdditions.iso" and ship it
with openSUSE distro. It should be 100% GPL now.
Legal test is still recommended in any case.

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-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
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