open-vm-tools for Fedora
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 11:50:53 UTC 2008
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:26:36AM +0200, Denis Leroy wrote:
> 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.
It's not a problem. It's simply a Fedora Policy.
josh
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