2 Dec
2013
2 Dec
'13
11:59 p.m.
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/i8042... [2] https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Additions/WINNT/Mouse...