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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r40364 r40383 10 10 <!-- comments: StarWriter --> 11 11 </head> 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 "COPYING.CDDL" 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> 50 13 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE<br> 51 14 Version 2, June 1991<br>
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