![]() ![]() Leaving the GUI with menu Machine - Detach GUI With the free Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager 'Show'-button, you have access to the VM-Console with the ALT-Key functions. If you don't think this is pertinent to you, feel free to ignore this post. The license in question is here: Īgain, I'm not saying this is universal for every organization, nor why it happened now, I just know we got an valid cease-and-desist document from Oracle at my job instructing us to either pay for an enterprise license or stop using it. It doesn't need to be on the download page for the EULA to be legally binding, though I agree they should've put it there as well. The interesting thing is: if one looks at their homepage where the extension pack is offered for download I meant this as a friendly heads-up to those of us whose boss is kind enough to let you crunch while your work computer isn't in use, so you can uninstall the extension pack before they get a scary letter like mine did. This isn't meant to be a message meant to scare a bunch of home users. My guess is that the difference is that they're harvesting telemetry better from VBox, at least on Windows hosts, so they have a better idea who owns a computer and whether they're using the extension pack. It's not (necessarily) that the license changed, it's that they now have sent a cease-and-desist to us. It's been this way for a while, so any change was quite a bit back. The Oracle site says that the Extension Pack has license number 11 on. ![]() It's really just if the computer is owned by a business, government, etc. If you're running it at home, you should be fine. ![]() They could just be being over-cautious, but a cease-and-desist letter tends to make legal departments do that. Note that I Am Not a Lawyer, but I do know that our legal team said that in my case (a non-teaching staff of a public-sector university), it does not fall under personal use, as it is based on who owns the computer in question (the university in my case), and what the primary purpose of using the computer is (not directly related to teaching or learning, as I'm IT support staff). As I was mentioning a few postings above: I would guess the way we are using the Oracle VM here does NOT fall under "non-personal usage", does it? can anyone verify - or falsify - this assumption? ![]()
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