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Hi all,

It is my understanding that the Extension Pack is free for commercial use as long as it is considered "Personal Use". Part of the personal use requirement is that you install it yourself. This is where things get sticky for me.

I will be building and deploying individual desktops with Virtualbox installed on them that will be going into stores. The end user will, for the most part, be an individual store manager. Given that this store manager is not doing the installation themselves, would this fall outside the "install it yourself" requirement of Personal Use? Or would paying a contractor that is not part of your normal business still be considered the same as installing it yourself? (IE, in the example provided in the licensing FAQ they say a system administrator for the company deploying it on 500 desktops needs a license. I'm not a system administrator for the store, just a one-off contractor installing it on a single desktop).

Thanks for the clarification!

This type of question would definitly be for the sales support of Oracle, or for the dev team.
This forum is user-based, so nobody here could give you a definitive answer.

My personaly understanding here would be that this would be business use...

Yep, packaging up a product and shipping to multiple third party users: I'd say that's clearly a commercial use. IMHO you should contact Oracle about buying a license.

Please take a look at http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/v ... index.html -- note the contact info in the upper right corner; vbox_oem_sales_ww_grp@oracle.com should be the right place to ask.

Thanks! I've sent an email in to Oracle as well. Hopefully I can buy single licenses, their store wants me to buy them in packs of 100. Kind of crazy...