http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525570 User dmueller@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525570#c1 Dirk Mueller changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |mseben@novell.com |ovo.novell.com | --- Comment #1 from Dirk Mueller 2009-07-28 05:20:22 MDT --- afaik it was removed on purpose - licensing issues. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525570 User bitdealer@gmail.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525570#c3 Stephan Kleine changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|CLOSED |REOPENED Resolution|INVALID | --- Comment #3 from Stephan Kleine 2009-07-29 13:35:45 MDT --- I'm sorry, but why am I supposed to open a new feature for this? It's neither something new that needs to be implemented nor discussed or whatever but simply something that is currently missing in the rpms you package and therefore a bug. Further it obviously is needed by everyone who doesn't use openSUSE but wants to install the guest additions (also the guest addition rpms don't work quite some times so one has to compile them manually on openSUSE) so I honestly fail to see the need to vote for this. Therefore please poke legal to review the license (iirc it should be fine) and if they agree please add it as a rpm. Last but not least let me say that "I am against adding guest additions" isn't what I consider a valid argument and tbh I get the impression that "Please file a feature" is more and more often the answer to burry it there until it shows up in the top 5 and I get kinda tired of it (the last part is not aimed at you personally but more my personal impression in the last time). -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525570 User mseben@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525570#c5 Michal Seben changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |cfarrell@novell.com --- Comment #5 from Michal Seben 2009-07-30 01:02:57 MDT --- Hi Ciaran could you please check if we could add VBoxGuestAdditions.iso to our distribution ? in license http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUELm I found : Sun allows you to install, execute, copy and redistribute a) unmodified copies of the ISO installation medium of the VirtualBox Guest Additions as shipped with the Product this iso contain already compiled binaries, so i suppose it belong to the non-oss repo -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525570 User mseben@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525570#c7 Michal Seben changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |bitdealer@gmail.com --- Comment #7 from Michal Seben 2009-08-06 06:44:02 MDT --- Hi Stephan ! If you have arguments for include vbox additions ISO to non-free please join to opensuse-factory mailing list: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2009-08/msg00111.html -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525570 User cfarrell@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525570#c9 --- Comment #9 from Ciaran Farrell 2009-08-14 01:25:38 MDT --- (In reply to comment #8)

And when installing the guest additions in Windows it asks for a License agreement with the PUEL so that tells me that we can't redistribute the iso.

Read Section 2.2 of the license. Then read comment #6 above. The assumption that it is possible redistribute the guest additions for openSUSE is based on: (1). the (re)distribution is of unmodified guest additions (2). the (re)distribution can be done independent of Sun's VirtualBox PUEL (i.e. the guest additions iso is a separate image It doesn't surprise me that end users are asked to agree to the PUEL on installation of the guest additions. By way of comparison, for openSUSE, Novell is allowed to redistribute Adobe Acrobat - yet the End User is still asked to agree to a EULA on installation/first run. This is quite commonplace for proprietary software. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525570 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525570#c11 Michal Seben changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |CLOSED Info Provider|bitdealer@gmail.com | Resolution| |FEATURE --- Comment #11 from Michal Seben 2010-01-27 09:37:42 UTC --- moved to openFate -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.