From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GLN1B-0004dB-Pt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:46:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k87Gi3i3010234; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 16:44:03 GMT Received: from astro.systems.pipex.net (astro.systems.pipex.net [62.241.163.6]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k87GY2fZ003112 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 16:34:02 GMT Received: from mesh.ruskin (81-86-110-137.dsl.pipex.com [81.86.110.137]) by astro.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11FC5E0000A8 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:34:01 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Ruskin Organization: Retired To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware on portage [about licensing] Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:34:01 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <87y7sv8z6x.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87y7sv8z6x.fsf@newsguy.com> X-No-Archive: yes Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609071734.01523.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7b19a4bf-90ad-4c30-a3c0-b84aaab89101 X-Archives-Hash: f2a6b72fb23f42332a09e48b7473840f 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. -- Peter ======================================================================== Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.1.1_rc1-r6. kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r5. 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64. gcc(GCC): 4.1.1. KDE: 3.5.4. Qt: 3.3.6. ======================================================================== -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list