[aur-general] VirtualBox in [community]

[Jelle van der Waa]

On 12/28/10 at 11:40am, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 13:56 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote:
> > In the [community] repo there are the following packages in addition to
> > the package virtualbox 4.0.0-2:
> > 
> > virtualbox-additions 4.0.0-1 (any)
> > virtualbox-guest-additions 4.0.0-2 (i686 and x86_64)
> > virtualbox-guest-modules 4.0.0-2 (i686 and x86_64)
> > 
> > In ABS there's only virtualbox-additions.
> > 
> > What is what package? And is virtualbox-additions a duplicate of
> > virtualbox-guest-additions? If yes, it would be nice, if this could be
> > removed from [community] without moving it to AUR.
> 
> virtualbox-additions is the iso to install guest additions inside the
> virtual machine (win or any linux), virtualbox-guest-additions is to
> install the additions inside an Arch guest.
> > 
> > And it would be nice if virtualbox-ext-oracle
> > (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44761) would be moved to
> > [community], too, so that virtualbox is completely in [community] with
> > all its features.
> 
> Isn't there licensing issues with these? Or have those been resolved by
> Oracle?
> 

Yes, the USB2.0 features are licensend so we can' t package them in
[community], still the TU' s have done a good job ;)