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14 Third-party licenses

• VirtualBox may contain code from the gSOAP XML web services tools, which are

licensed under the license in chapter

14.2.14

,

gSOAP Public License Version 1.3a

,

page

267

and

Copyright (C) 2000-2007, Robert van Engelen, Genivia Inc., and others.

• VirtualBox may ship with the application tunctl (shipped as VBoxTunctl) from

the User-mode Linux suite which is governed by the license in chapter

14.2.1

,

GNU General Public License (GPL)

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242

and

Copyright (C) 2002 Jeff Dike.

• VirtualBox contains code from Chromium, an OpenGL implementation, which is

goverened by the licenses in chapter

14.2.15

,

Chromium licenses

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273

and

Copyright (C) Stanford University, The Regents of the University of California,
Red Hat, and others.

• VirtualBox contains libcurl which is governed by the license in chapter

14.2.16

,

curl license

, page

276

and

Copyright (C) 1996-2009, Daniel Stenberg.

• VirtualBox contains dnsproxy which is governed by the license in chapter

14.2.4

,

MIT License

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261

and

Copyright (c) 2003, 2004, 2005 Armin Wolfermann.

• VirtualBox may contain iniparser which is governed by the license in chapter

14.2.4

,

MIT License

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261

and

Copyright (c) 2000-2008 by Nicolas Devillard.

14.2 Licenses

14.2.1 GNU General Public License (GPL)

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license docu-

ment, but changing it is not allowed.

Preamble
The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share

and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee
your freedom to share and change free software–to make sure the software is free
for all its users. This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
Foundation’s software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it.
(Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Library General
Public License instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too.

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