Legal advice about macinbox HOT 4 CLOSED

This showed up in 1b34584. It will go out with the v3.2.0 release.

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Hello, @robin850, and thank you for your interest!

The VMware Fusion documentation provides this information about using macOS as a guest:

Mac OS X, OS X, or macOS virtual machines that you create in Fusion can run on any Apple-branded hardware that uses Intel processors. The Apple licensing agreement defines the situations when it is permissible to virtualize Mac OS X, OS X, or macOS. Fusion does not change these terms or enable macOS on non-Apple hardware. You cannot use a Mac OS X, OS X, or macOS virtual machine in another VMware product, such as Workstation Pro.

The VirtualBox documentation provides this information about using macOS as a guest:

Mac OS X is commercial, licensed software and contains both license and technical restrictions that limit its use to certain hardware and usage scenarios. You must understand and comply with these restrictions.

I wasn't able to find any statements along those lines in the Parallels documentation for guest OS support.

I do think it would be reasonable to remind people to review their OS software license agreement if they have questions about the permissibility of macOS virtualization. I do not think it would be appropriate for me to provide legal advice regarding how people should interpret that license.

Perhaps something like this in the README:

Note: This software does not virtualize macOS; it assists you in preparing the OS to be virtualized by other software. If you have questions about the permissibility of virtualizing macOS you may want to review the documentation for the virtualization software you are using and the software license agreement that applies to your version of macOS.

Would that address your concerns?

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I do not think it would be appropriate for me to provide legal advice regarding how people should interpret that license.

Yes, totally fair point, you're right !

Your note looks great ! 👍 Actually, I didn't think about looking at VirtualBox or VMware documentation at all ; now that I read your message, that seems obvious but given how simple the note is, that still makes sense to put it in the README IMO.

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v3.2.0 has been released to rubygems.org. Closing.

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