CDDL is FSF approved but GPL incompatible, see
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#CDDL,
It has a weak per-file copyleft (like version 1 of the MPL) which makes it
incompatible with our GPL. This means modules covered by the GPL and ones
covered by the CDDL cannot legally be
According to GNU.org CDDL "is a free software license":
http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:CDDLv1.0
I don't understand why that would be a show stopper for VirtualBox.
Just like the ZFS for TrueOS, Oracle Linux, Illumos, Solaris systems under
CDDL that's violated against GPL, which Oracle is hence needed to make an OSE
channel (open source edition) for VirtualBox to be met under the GPL
requirements. VirtualBox has been done to do this but OpenZFS still
99.999% of virtualbox is free software, there has to be a way! I'm not a
programmer, but I'll keep rooting from the sidelines
Openwatcom is terrible, I wish that someone would freakin fork Virtualbox's
source code in such a way that openwatcom and any other garbage is no longer
required.
That would be so awesome.
I highly recommend having WinXP disconnected from the internet when possible.
:/
You can use an alternative such as KVM, Qemu or XenServer.
I love virtualbox. It's one of the best learning tools that I've had in my
arsenal for many, many years. It pains me that such a small and seemingly
inconsequential part of virtualbox, OpenWatcom, violates the FSDG. Is there a
project underway to remove it? I don't want to install it on my
