open-vm-tools for Fedora

[Denis Leroy]

Dario Lesca wrote:
> Why Fedora not have in our standard repo the open-vm-tools package?
> 
> http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/
> 
>> linux-0chi:~ # rpm -qi open-vm-tools-2008.04.14-21.1
>> Name        : open-vm-tools                Relocations: (not relocatable)
>> Version     : 2008.04.14                        Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
>> ....
>> Group       : System/Emulators/PC           Source RPM: open-vm-tools-2008.04.14-21.1.src.rpm
>> Size        : 1495998                          License: BSD 3-Clause; GPL v2 only; LGPL v2.1 only
>> ....
>> Summary     : Open Virtual Machine Tools
>> Description :
>> Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source
>> implementation of VMware Tools.
> 
> It's a License Problem?
> Or maintainer problem?

It's a Fedora Policy problem.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-September/msg01949.html