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On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 16:00 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > I think I had this discussion a while back, and the upshot was that a |
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> > number of the Gentoo developers used VMware Workstation themselves, so |
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> > they made it work, and as long as VMware didn't forbid them from |
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> > distributing it, they didn't see anything wrong with distributing it. |
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> Gentoo don't distribute it, they only distribute a bash script and a |
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> couple of patches. The rest comes from VMware. Distributing VMware isn't |
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> really an issue anyway, I have distributed many tens of thousands of |
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> copies, all within VMware's licence terms. |
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Actually, we do distribute it. We mirror the VMware Workstation |
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tarballs, which is entirely within the license. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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