On 3/7/2010 10:40 PM, Richard Hector wrote:
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 22:07 -0600, Mark Allums wrote:
Oh, and Virtualbox was originally based on QEMU, and there is still a
lot of QEMU code in it.
Interesting - does that pose any issues for the non-OSE Virtualbox,
w.r.t. QEMU being GPL?
Richard
The non-OSE is only for specific bits, like USB support, which is not to
my knowledge in QEMU, since it was added by Innotek or Sun.
I think this is a legal matter, which I am not qualified to answer (and
I haven't read anything about it.)
I expect that Oracle will remove code from QEMU over time. I expect
(and be delighted to be wrong about) that Sun and Oracle will fork VBox
and close off the non-OSE version. This is pure speculation.
Mark Allums
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