Re: virtual box

2007-11-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* John Halton: The box popped up on my last upgrade (to 1.5.2). Perhaps I should file it as a bug. Yes, please do. The prompt doesn't even note that Virtualbox is licensed under the GPL, so we can actually remove it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: virtual box

2007-11-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Olive said: The version of Virtual Box included in Debian is distributed under the GPLv2. So far it's good. But I see in http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads that We do request that anyone intending to redistribute the Open Source Edition contact us

Re: virtual box

2007-11-09 Thread John Halton
What Stephen said. It may suggest a degree of ambivalence towards the *spirit* of the GPL, but it doesn't affect the legal position. Ditto the irritating 'please register this product' box that appears when you install or upgrade vbox. John On 09/11/2007, Olive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The

Re: virtual box

2007-11-09 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Friday 09 November 2007 05:41:28 am Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Olive said: The version of Virtual Box included in Debian is distributed under the GPLv2. So far it's good. But I see in http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads that We do request that anyone

Re: virtual box

2007-11-09 Thread Florian Weimer
* John Halton: What Stephen said. It may suggest a degree of ambivalence towards the *spirit* of the GPL, but it doesn't affect the legal position. Ditto the irritating 'please register this product' box that appears when you install or upgrade vbox. Hasn't this been patched in the Debian

Re: virtual box

2007-11-09 Thread John Halton
The box popped up on my last upgrade (to 1.5.2). Perhaps I should file it as a bug. I know it doesn't make the software non-free; it's just a bit jarring in the context of a free system. On 09/11/2007, Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * John Halton: What Stephen said. It may suggest a