open-vm-tools for Fedora

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Oct 15 10:55:05 UTC 2008


On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 08:47:19AM -0200, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >
> >I've no interest in sending patches to open-vm-tools as a project
> >because VMware require that you sign a contributors agreement.
> >This gives VMWare joint copyright assignment allowing them to use
> >all contributed code in non-open source projects. No thanks.
> >
> IANAL, but can VMware even require that for GPL,LGPL licensed code?
> I'd think not..?

That's the whole point of requiring contributors to give them copyright
over submissions. If you are copyright owner you can change license 
terms to whatever you like any time you like.

Daniel
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