[tech] VirtualBox single license

[James Andrewartha]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Harry wrote:

> To be squeaky commercially compliant I would like to buy a single VirtualBox 
> license for a site but Oracle sells 100 seats.

Their FAQ says you should be alright:

"What exactly do you mean by personal use and academic use in the 
Personal Use and Evaluation License?

Personal use is when you install the product on one or more PCs 
yourself and you make use of it (or even your friend, sister and 
grandmother). It doesn't matter whether you just use it for fun or run 
your multi-million euro business with it. Also, if you install it on your 
work PC at some large company, this is still personal use. However, if you 
are an administrator and want to deploy it to the 500 desktops in your 
company, this would no longer qualify as personal use. Well, you could ask 
each of your 500 employees to install VirtualBox but don't you think we 
deserve some money in this case? We'd even assist you with any issue you 
might have."

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ

Which looks like a good reading of the actual license to me:

“Personal Use” requires that you use the Product on the same Host 
Computer where you installed it yourself and that no more than one client 
connect to that Host Computer at a time for the purpose of displaying 
Guest Computers remotely.

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

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