On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 06:55:57PM +0000, James Hollingshead wrote:
> 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.
I just looked, and you're right... oops.
> James
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