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Changeset 40383 in vbox for trunk/doc/License-gpl-2.html


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Mar 6, 2012 4:14:40 PM (13 years ago)
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vboxsync
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ExtPacks/VNC: New extension pack contributed by Ivo Smits, Howard Su and Christophe Devriese. Thank you very much!
Frontends/VBoxHeadless: delete old VNC support which was far less useful

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    12 <body>Preliminary notes:<br>
    13 <br>
    14 1) The majority of code in the VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE) is<br>
    15 copyrighted by Oracle Corporation. This code is combined with third-party code<br>
    16 that was originally released under licenses which the Free Software Foundation<br>
    17 considers incompatible with the GPL, such as the Apache License 2.0, the OpenSSL<br>
    18 license, the Mozilla Public License (MPL) and the Slirp license. (Please see the<br>
    19 VirtualBox User Manual for a complete list of third-party code and their<br>
    20 licenses.) As a special exception to the terms and conditions of the GPL listed<br>
    21 below, Oracle gives you explicit permission to combine its GPL code contained in<br>
    22 VirtualBox OSE with third-party code under the aforementioned licenses. You may<br>
    23 copy and distribute such a combination provided that you adhere to the terms and<br>
    24 conditions of all of the GPL and the licenses of the third-party code; in<br>
    25 particular, you must include the source code of the entire combination insofar<br>
    26 as the GPL requires distribution of source code.<br>
    27 <br>
    28 2) The GPL listed below does not bind software which uses VirtualBox services by<br>
    29 merely linking to VirtualBox libraries so long as all VirtualBox interfaces used<br>
    30 by that software are multi-licensed. A VirtualBox interface is deemed<br>
    31 multi-licensed if it is declared in a VirtualBox header file that is licensed<br>
    32 under both the GPL version 2 (below) *and* the Common Development and<br>
    33 Distribution License Version 1.0 (CDDL), as it comes in the &quot;COPYING.CDDL&quot; file.<br>
    34 In other words, calling such a multi-licensed interface is merely considered<br>
    35 normal use of VirtualBox and does not turn the calling code into a derived work<br>
    36 of VirtualBox. In particular, this applies to code that wants to extend<br>
    37 VirtualBox by way of the Extension Pack mechanism declared in the ExtPack.h<br>
    38 header file.<br>
    39 <br>
    40 3) Whoever creates or distributes a derived work based on VirtualBox OSE is not<br>
    41 obligated to grant the above exceptions for such a version. The GPL allows for<br>
    42 releasing a modified version without the above exception; in addition, Oracle<br>
    43 hereby also allows you to release a modified version which carries forward these<br>
    44 exceptions.<br>
    45 <br>
    46 Oracle Corporation<br>
    47 <br>
    48 -------------------------------------------------------<br>
    49 <br>
     12<body>
    5013 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE<br>
    5114 Version 2, June 1991<br>
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