Samba in VMware (Was: Another GPL violation?)

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

thank you!

On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Regis Duchesne wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I just wanted to let you know that your voices have been heard, and
> that the next release of VMware will do the following:
> 
> 1) A file called SAMBA-LICENSE will be always installed in <DOCDIR>
>    (/usr/doc/vmware by default) when VMware is installed.
> 
>    This file contains:
> 
>    a) A header from VMware explaining where (URL) to find VMware diffs to the
>       Samba source version 2.0.6
> 
>    b) The full content of the file COPYING (GPL v 2) included in the
>       Samba source version 2.0.6
> 
> 2) At configuration time of VMware, if the user decides to use the
>    Samba server binary modified by VMware, he will be pointed at the
>    file described in 1)
> 
> Again, sorry for the delay, but we are at least as busy as you guys
> are :)
> 
> Have a nice day,
> -- 
> Regis "HPReg" Duchesne - Member of Technical Staff - VMWare, Inc.
>         www              http://www.VMware.com/
>        (O o)             I use Linux (1135 KB/s over 10Mb/s ethernet)
> --.oOO--(_)--OOo.----------------------------------------------------
> If cryptography is outlawed, only outlaws will have cryptography
> 

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