[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#533319: Bug#533319: virtualbox-ose: Please include guest additions iso

[Frank Mehnert]

On Tuesday 16 June 2009, Hew McLachlan wrote:
> Package: virtualbox-ose
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Users wishing to install guest additions are currently prompted to download
> the iso from virtualbox.org. It would be nice if the iso could be included
> in the virtualbox-ose package so that guest additions could be more easily
> accessed and integrated in the package. The iso is a reasonable size
> (currently 27MB, and growing each version), so an alternative is to have
> something like a virtualbox-ose-additions package which includes the iso.
> This could be Recommends or Suggests by virtualbox-ose.

Note that this is would be indeed allowed as redistribution of the
additions .ISO is explicitely allowed, see §2 of

  http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL

However, redistribution here means unmodified and in binary form which
is most probably a problem for Debian.

Kind regards,

Frank
-- 
Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert    Sun Microsystems, Inc.    www.sun.com
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