[needs packaging] virtualbox, proprietary

[karaluh]

VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Proprietary edition has some extra features that are missing from VirtualBox OSE.

Homepage:
http://www.virtualbox.org

License:
unfree

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Thank you for opening this bug and helping make Ubuntu better.

Unfortunately, we cannot package the full VirtualBox: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions states this version is provided in binary form only; additionally, it has usage restrictions (only personal usage, and evaluation).

Closing WONTFIX: the Sun licence for the full VBox explicitly prohibits any usage beyond those listed in paragraph 2.

[karaluh (karaluh)]

1. There are allready binary only packages in Ubuntu (fglrx, Adobe flash player).
2. The only reason Sun doesn't allow to redistribute the binary version is to track it's downloads, so it should not be that hard for Canonical and Sun to come with an agreement.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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[Mechanical snail (replicator-snail)]

This is unnecessary. Sun (now Oracle) provide their own repository with an up-to-date proprietary version. I've had no problems with it.

[karaluh (karaluh)]

I know, I'm using it. However, I would rather use only official repositories.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Virtualbox is available in the Precise universe repositories, so I'd say this can be set as fix released.