Tracker item #3371547, was opened at 2011-07-19 09:26 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by mvanzin You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=3371547&group_id=204462
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: https://www.google.com/accounts () Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: patches to allow vmtools to be built with uclibc/buildroot Initial Comment: With the attached patches, vmtools will be able to be built for uclibc. Tested successfully in a buildroot environment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Marcelo Vanzin (mvanzin) Date: 2011-09-26 13:24 Message: Took a while but finally got our legal department to sort things out, so I'll look at the patches as soon as I find some time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: https://www.google.com/accounts () Date: 2011-07-22 06:34 Message: Tried sending you a private email via sourceforge but it's erroring out. My contact email is walla...@ccbilleuremovethis.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Marcelo Vanzin (mvanzin) Date: 2011-07-21 11:00 Message: Hey, could you send me a private e-mail? Sourceforge doesn't seem to show your user info. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Marcelo Vanzin (mvanzin) Date: 2011-07-21 10:42 Message: Thanks. I'll ping our legal department since generally they haven't been very good in processing those. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: https://www.google.com/accounts () Date: 2011-07-21 04:20 Message: Contributor agreement sent. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: https://www.google.com/accounts () Date: 2011-07-21 04:05 Message: I've substituted patch #4 with a much simpler version -- just moves NO_FLOATING_POINT ifdef to exclude one function. The rest of the code that was problematic can be stubbed out by compiling with NO_FLOATING_POINT. So basically these patches just modify some ifdef's now. Will submit contributor agreement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Marcelo Vanzin (mvanzin) Date: 2011-07-20 10:08 Message: For the libc bits, I don't think we can accept those into our repository, unless you manage to get the copyright owner to sign off the copyright on those bits to VMware (which I think is unlikely to happen...). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: https://www.google.com/accounts () Date: 2011-07-20 01:08 Message: Hi, All patches except one are nothing more than adding an extra #if defined so signing and returning the approval form isn't a problem. Patch number #4 is more problematic however since the code is lifted off libc. What's the contribution policy on that? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Marcelo Vanzin (mvanzin) Date: 2011-07-19 10:30 Message: Thanks for taking the time to do this, but we can't accept any patches unless you follow the instructions at: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/contribute.php Lots of this code is shared with our closed-sourced products, so we can't just merge (L)GPL code into our code base without being able to change the license. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=3371547&group_id=204462 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
