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virtualbox-ose suggesting non-free recommendations (Guest Additions)

Verfasst von icarious am 8 Januar, 2012 - 23:03
Projekt:Trisquel
Version:5.5
Komponente:License problems
Kategorie:Fehlerbericht
Priorität:critical
Zugewiesen:aklis
Status:closed
Beschreibung

virtualbox-ose recommends installing of "Guest Additions" which has a non-free license, when a user clicks on "Devices" under a running VM. Screenshot attached. Kindly remove the non-free recommendation.

aklis:
Komponente:Packages» License problems
Zugewiesen zu:anonymous» aklis
10 Januar, 2012 - 18:14
stefano:

Hello,

I don't think the Guest Additions are non-free.

The issue has been discussed in this forum thread:

https://trisquel.info/en/forum/virtualbox-guest-additions-license

Thanks.

11 Januar, 2012 - 12:17
aklis:

As noted in the forum, some files are non-free:

https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/src/VBox/Additions/WINNT/i8042prt/kbddep.c

And gnu/linux extensions are packaged in trisquel (virtualbox-guest-utils, virtualbox-guest-dkms and virtualbox-guest-x11.

Would be more interesting to create an iso image with just the gnu/linux drivers than remove the menu option?

11 Januar, 2012 - 12:28
icarious:

stefano, it is based on a non-free license PUEL...

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL

15 Januar, 2012 - 02:27
upstream:
Status:active» patch (ready)

Any free distro must provide their own free drivers, so i removed the support for non-guest additions

http://bzr.trisquel.info/package-helpers/branches/aklis/revision/43

15 März, 2012 - 17:36
icarious:

Thanks for providing the fix.. Hope it will be applied to the upcoming Trisquel 5.5 too.

22 März, 2012 - 07:41
SirGrant:

Can we mark this as closed?

17 August, 2012 - 04:55
SirGrant:
Version:5.0» 5.5
Status:patch (ready)» fixed

Tested on 5.5 and it does not show this under the devices menu.

19 September, 2012 - 04:30
quidam:
Status:fixed» closed

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

3 Oktober, 2012 - 04:35