[gentoo-user] vmware on portage [about licensing]

[gentoo-user] vmware on portage [about licensing]

[reader]

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_licenses.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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] vmware on portage [about licensing]

[Boris Fersing]

2006/9/7, reader@newsguy.com <reader@newsguy.com>:
> 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_licenses.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.

Hi,

vmware isn't open-source nor free, have a look at :

/usr/portage/licenses/vmware

Boris.
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Re: [gentoo-user] vmware on portage [about licensing]

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:37:58 -0500, reader@newsguy.com wrote:

> 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_licenses.txt.gz

VMware products are commercial. If you read the file, you'll see it
related to certain OSS components used by VMware, such as Samba.


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Re: [gentoo-user] vmware on portage [about licensing]

[Peter Ruskin]

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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