Re: plex86 video proposal

[James Hollingshead]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 09:18:53PM -0500, Kenneth C. Arnold wrote:
> 
> Speaking of VMWare, has anyone realized that all the kernel-level code
> for VMWare is (and has to be) open-source? 

I don't think it is you know. Their kernel code is all in a module,
and Linux has stated he doesn't consider modules to be part of the
kernel as far as the GPL goes (this being in order to allow binary
modules). This also applies for the vmware modules. Their source code
is availiable so they can compile on different kernels, but it has an
"All Rights Reserved" copyright notice at the top of each file, and I
assume is therefore under the same license as the rest of their
product.

James