![]() I've been doing some research on the GNU GPL v2, but some things I read lead me to believe we're in the clear and others seem to suggest we're not. Depending on what guest operating systems you want to run, you will need at least 512 MB of RAM (but probably more, and the more the better). Any recent Intel or AMD processor should do. Unfortunately I'm not very knowledgeable on licensing practices. In order to run VirtualBox on your machine, you need: Reasonably powerful x86 hardware. Since we are not involved at all in the distribution of VBox, does that let us off the hook for any licensing concerns? We would install our VM image on their virtualization software. In this topic I will cover step by step how to migrate an Oracle VirtualMachine from VirtualBox to vSphere Esxi 5.5. If we will run into licensing issues, I wonder if we could get around them by having the client install their choice of Virtualization software (we would heavily recommend VBox). Is it legal for us to charge for our software? If not, does it make a difference that we charge for files rather than the software itself?ĭo we need to make our source code available to users if we are using VBox under the GPL? This is almost certainly not acceptable to us as it is proprietary software that we do not want to make available to others. Technically, the software itself is free and we charge clients for each file/document that they generate using the software. We were led to believe that it would be OK to distribute our software to multiple clients without them needing a license for VBox, but recently this has been called into question and we want to confirm that what we're doing is legal. In a recent video in the Free Software series, I showed you VirtualBox, which is a free and open source solution to be able to run other operating systems. ![]() We have not modified VirtualBox in any way and the install file and process is totally separate from our software. My company is distributing software that runs on an Ubuntu system within a VirtualBox VM. The VirtualBox Base Package is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2. ![]()
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