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Message boards :
CMS Application :
A Heads Up for Vbox Extension Pack Users
(Message 44791)
Posted 22 Apr 2021 by Zachary Forbes Dearing Post: the interesting thing is: if one looks at their homepage where the extension pack is offered for download 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 license in question is here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL Again, 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. If you don't think this is pertinent to you, feel free to ignore this post. VirtualBox Extension Pack is not needed. Thanks for that. I haven't noticed any problems from uninstalling the extension pack personally, so that checks out on my end. This post is, again, just a notification for anyone who still had it installed and are in the group of people at risk for this. |
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Message boards :
CMS Application :
Could not get X509 credentials
(Message 44730)
Posted 13 Apr 2021 by Zachary Forbes Dearing Post: Agreed. Every CMS task I get is failing. (That said, it's stating that those tasks don't exist when I navigate to those URLs you provided). I might just disable CMS for now so I don't junk up the pipeline with errored-out tasks. |
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Message boards :
CMS Application :
A Heads Up for Vbox Extension Pack Users
(Message 44729)
Posted 13 Apr 2021 by Zachary Forbes Dearing Post: 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? 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). They could just be being over-cautious, but a cease-and-desist letter tends to make legal departments do that. If you're running it at home, you should be fine. It's really just if the computer is owned by a business, government, etc. The Oracle site says that the Extension Pack has license number 11 on 21 May 2020. What has changed? To my knowledge, nothing. It's been this way for a while, so any change was quite a bit back. It's not (necessarily) that the license changed, it's that they now have sent a cease-and-desist to us. 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. Of course I could be wrong. This isn't meant to be a message meant to scare a bunch of home users. 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. |
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Message boards :
CMS Application :
A Heads Up for Vbox Extension Pack Users
(Message 44683)
Posted 8 Apr 2021 by Zachary Forbes Dearing Post: If I remember right, CMS requires the Virtualbox extension pack, right? Well, just a fair warning that Oracle is sending cease-and-desist letters to any non-personal usage of the Virtualbox Extension pack without paying for an enterprise license. Base Virtualbox is GPLv2, but it turns out the extension pack is proprietary. No CMS on my work computers for me, I suppose. |
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