Comment by pizza234
6 years ago
This is throwing the baby along with the bathwater.
VirtualBox itself is GPL. There is no lawsuit risk.
What requires "commercial considerations" is the extension pack.
The extension pack is required for:
> USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices, VirtualBox RDP, disk encryption, NVMe and PXE boot for Intel cards
If licensing needs to be considered (ie. in a corporate environment), but one doesn't need the functionalities above, then there's no issue.
> This is throwing the baby along with the bathwater.
It might be, but let's just say that Oracle aren't big fans of $WORK, and our founders are big fans of them. Thus our legal department are rather tetchy about anything that could give them even the slightest chance of doing anything.
> What requires "commercial considerations" is the extension pack.
And our legal department are nervous about that being installed, even by accident, so they prefer to minimise the possibility.