Just out of curiosity: what is wrong (from licensing point of view) with VMware drivers?
I don't know. Good question. I assume that the FSF is not happy, but I don't know if it is the drivers or the virtualization engine.
If they are not happy about GPL2 of VMware drivers (which they apparently aren't, otherwise they wouldn't invent things like GPL3), they are probably not happy about linux kernel as a whole either. :-) (Well, thinking about it, they actually are not very happy about it.)
The reason they aren't happy with Linux is because the upstream version has proprietary code inside it (in the form of .ihex code without corresponding source). And Linus doesn't care (and hasn't cared since the late 90s) -- which is why the FSF supports the Linux-libre project (which de-blobs Linux). And the reason the FSF doesn't like the VMWare drivers is because VMWare the company has *allegedly* infringed on the GPL in the case of busybox (and Linux). Can someone explain the animosity towards the FSF? We owe a lot to them, and it's not fair to smear them by claiming that the reason why they do not support distributions such as us is because of trivial reasons. Their concerns _are_ legitimate IMHO. -- Aleksa Sarai Software Engineer (Containers) SUSE Linux GmbH https://www.cyphar.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org