On 3/20/20 5:08 PM, Michal Kubecek wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 09:45:49AM +1030, Simon Lees wrote:
On 3/20/20 7:26 AM, Larry Finger wrote:
It is not the guest additions. That needs to be done from within the guest. I also need to run VM versions of Windows for certain tasks. At least, you can now download and install that iso file from the "Devices" menu item.
What I am talking about here is the PUEL-licensed stuff that adds the USB 2 and USB 3 drivers to the host code. With that license, we cannot distribute, but we could supply a script that ensures that it is always updated when you update to a new version of VB.
Is SUSE's Legal team happy to interpret that license in this way? otherwise the package is likely not to pass a legal review.
We used to have something like that for TTF font pack from Microsoft but it was a package (pullin-msttfonts or so - I still have a lock for it on some older systems) which anyone could decide not to install (IIRC it was installed by default for some period of time).
I'm pretty sure there are people who would object to mandatory installation of strangely lincensed Oracle stuff so I would suggest such script to be in a separate subpackage so that anyone could decide not to have it. It could still be installed by default (majority of virtualbox users seems to want it) but there should be an option to opt out.
From memory I think that package was in the non-free repo i'm guessing it would be best to do similar here. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B