From: Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware on portage [about licensing]
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:34:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609071734.01523.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y7sv8z6x.fsf@newsguy.com>
On Thursday 07 September 2006 16:37, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> When users install vmware via portage what is the procedure with
> licensing.
>
> When I attempt to powerup a vmware guest I get dunned for a
> license. and sent to vmware homepage where I can get a free 30
> day trial or pay.
>
> I understood this thing was open-source and one of the installed
> files is:
> /usr/share/doc/vmware-workstation-5.5.1.19175-r4/open_source_lice
>nses.txt.gz
>
> So what is user expected to do here? A search of vmware on
> gmane for this list didn't turn up any discussion of that point.
You need to buy a licence for vmware-workstation. However,
vmware-server and vmware-player are currently free and both are in
portage.
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Peter
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KDE: 3.5.4. Qt: 3.3.6.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-07 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-07 15:37 [gentoo-user] vmware on portage [about licensing] reader
2006-09-07 16:15 ` Boris Fersing
2006-09-07 16:30 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-09-07 16:34 ` Peter Ruskin [this message]
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