Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Sep 2007 19:56 UTC, submitted by SEJeff
Today, VMware announced that it has released a majority of its VMware Tools as open source software (GPLv2), part of the project Open Virtual Machine Tools. "The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source implementation of VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines."
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2007-02-11
You are free to diff the code, I'm sure you'll find a few matching variable names and a few commas. These are usually enough for Cease and Desist letters, I can't wait to see one of these mentioning GPL.
Seriously, the alleged breaking of the GPL didn't have anything to do with VMware Tools, which are, essentially, drivers.