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Re:Better slow than sorry – VirtualBox 3D acceleration consi... by barbegal on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @04:41PM (#17656891)
Wow that FAQ and license is confusing. They define personal use as:

> use solely by the person downloading the Product from Oracle on a single Host Computer, provided that no more than one client or remote computer is connected to that Host Computer and that client or remote computer is used solely to remotely view the Guest Computers.

This isn't a standard definition for "Personal Use" and I can now understand why people weren't happy.

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Re:Better slow than sorry – VirtualBox 3D acceleration consi... by derefr on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @05:31PM (#17657381)
I think it’s a pretty normal definition of Personal Use, that was necessarily screwed up by the fact that many tenants of a system can use a hypervisor installed on one machine. So, even if you’ve installed that software for personal use, you can’t be letting all your friends in the office SSH in and use it under your same license.
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