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A GPL-enforcement suit against VMware

A GPL-enforcement suit against VMware

Posted Mar 5, 2015 18:52 UTC (Thu) by mcgrof (subscriber, #25917)
Parent article: A GPL-enforcement suit against VMware

As someone who had been heavily involved on the hippy loving FreeBSD / Linux joint kumbaya dream of working on device drivers together I can say that even if it was only about permissively licensed code in Linux in order to share that outside of Linux there is a *large* amount of steps and efforts required to make that happen properly, and to everyone's content. I gave up on the effort to collaborate on device drivers with the BSD community, mostly first because they lacked developers engaged, and long term this gives us nothing in return of value to Linux. Vmware though -- in no way has shown *any* of this effort, its sad to see the abuse and it simply cannot be tolerated.

I hack on the kernel and fully support Christoph and the Software Freedom Conservancy in this effort.


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