5.3: Virtual Box Oracle Licence & Manual OS X PHP upgrade

Dear all,

I would like to begin using laravel 5.3 however my mac os x was installed with PHP 5.5.3 and version PHP >= 5.6.4 is required for Laravel 5.3.

The most straightfoward solution seems to be homestead however Virtual Box homes tied with a commercial oracle license that I do not understand. https://www.virtualbox.org/ https://www.oracle.com/legal/terms.html "By Sharing Content, you grant Oracle a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, nonexclusive, fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display, broadcast, transmit and distribute the Content for any purpose and in any form, medium, or technology now known or later developed."

Is there an MIT licenced virtual box I can use for Homestead?

Alternatively, I could upgrade my PHP however I am having trouble doing this too.

When I run this binary package curl -s http://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 5.6 via https://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/upgrade-php-on-osx/ I get an error: Received SIGHUP or SIGTERM

Buffer written to /Users/me/.bash_profile.save

• I cannot open this file and nothing was written to my bash file.

There is also no php folder/element in my /usr/local folder as was expected with the above command.

Can anyone please reassure me about Virtual Box, offer an alternative solution or offer some advice about how to upgrade php?

Thank you !