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 1GLMf0-0006EL-DK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:23:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k87GLaLB019663; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 16:21:36 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k87GFTnD013492 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 16:15:29 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p46so602421nfa for ; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:15:29 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=VdfzsrW5QXyHSA3+YBT74Sge+AXQiOuIgpXQYb7ShEov05eAdLsQzx0M9+K5De0oZLgBi+Ze2GEk1eEGXiB73X2QloE26G0wn5Qtxjoc0pObFE5Lv8S1CcmDrg6ieRirZKimay5fb7Sj9f7vlN5O1imtjw3Und2d1RK9gutu8tI= Received: by 10.67.100.17 with SMTP id c17mr520075ugm; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:15:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.86.12 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 09:15:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <97c95c3d0609070915m27bfbe7l237f7209623b1aa@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 18:15:28 +0200 From: "Boris Fersing" Sender: kernel.sensei@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware on portage [about licensing] In-Reply-To: <87y7sv8z6x.fsf@newsguy.com> 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; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline References: <87y7sv8z6x.fsf@newsguy.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9f16bdb497c9c500 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k87GFTnD013492 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k87GLaLP019663 X-Archives-Salt: d400e9e8-66d3-4c95-80ff-e570582349ec X-Archives-Hash: c3a5a7f704fec7cc9974768a767b63c6 2006/9/7, 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.t= xt.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. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > --=20 Quiconque me parle de Dieu en veut =E0 ma bourse ou =E0 ma libert=E9. --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list