[Bug 1132102] VirtualBox 6.0.8 guest addition ISO download failed
http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1132102 http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1132102#c7 --- Comment #7 from Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@gmail.com> --- I asked a question about the ISO license on the VirtualBox developer newsgroup. Klaus Espenlaub from Oracle answered: "It's unfortunately complicated, as you might have guessed from the large numbers of platforms covered... The vast majority of the GA ISO contents (the stuff for Linux, Windows and macOS) is easily within the limits. However, the OS/2 GA have a significant amount of IBM copyrighted code from the driver development kit (more than just headers). What we provide is therefore in a way open source (and anyone can use the sources to rebuild), but the license isn't one of the usual (IIRC it doesn't allow changing sources, just distributing binaries)... The issue with downloading GA should be fixed with the next update of 6.0. Klaus"
From what I read there, there would be no problem in adding the ISO to our RPM as we would just be redistributing a binary; however, the download issue should be fixed in 6.0.10, thus there seems to be little need to add another 83 MB to the packages.
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