I was actually talking about their miniport/vga driver, which as of ~2 years ago was basically the DDK samples with the GPL slapped on top, as well as their i8042pnp driver (this is an XP driver, not NT4) which was also similarly the MS code with the GPL slapped on top. Perhaps once Oracle bought them, they realized that taking MS samples and then putting the GPL on top of them is a license violation.

Note that this isn't what I suggested ReactOS should do :)

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Colin Finck <colin@reactos.org> wrote:
Nuno Brito <nuno.brito@triplecheck.de> wrote:
> Would you please point me to the files that are under Microsoft
> copyright on vbox? I can check which kind of license they have.

Alex was probably referring to the i8042prt driver that was part of the
VirtualBox Guest Additions a while ago (see [1]). But in the meantime,
Oracle has rewritten this driver from scratch under the GPL (see [2]).

I don't believe there can be a reason to rewrite a legacy NT4 driver
from scratch if not for licensing issues..


- Colin


[1]
https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Additions/WINNT/i8042prt?rev=35379
[2]
https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Additions/WINNT/Mouse/NT4/VBoxPS2NT.cpp?rev=42154

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