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> received a bill from Oracle for $12,200 for using the company's proprietary VirtualBox Extension Pack, which provides extra capabilities for the free GPL-lice

> received a bill from Oracle for $12,200 for using the company's proprietary VirtualBox Extension Pack, which provides extra capabilities for the free GPL-licensed VirtualBox hypervisor This still means that vanilla VirtualBox is GPL, and can be (freely) used for businesses, right? EDIT: Looking at the downloads page, apparently so, VB is licensed with GPLv2. The Extensions Pack following that is licensed PUEL. Luckily, in my case, only vanilla was installed. But with VB's nag of new version, the possibility of a licensing bait-and-switch on a newer version and Oracle having left a bad taste... I'm uninstalling VB from all PCs except one or two devices as a precautionary measure.

matteuan 7y ago
...also Guest Additions are GPLv2 fortunately
- panpanna 7y ago
  Major distros should modify their version of VB to not accept Oracles version of the extensions without (1) informing users about the Foss version and (2) forwarding the user to this page first.