On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Tamas Monos <tam...@veber.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > Do vmware libraries really need to be removed and re-added manually? > Could ASF not acquire permission from Vmware to redistribute their freely > available sdk for this project? > This 4.0 would be the first big ASF release and you want to cripple vmware > support? >
It's a bit more complicated than removing and re-adding. You also need to recompile CloudStack (or at least the vmware plugin + vmware base), but if you are going to that trouble you might as well just compile the entire thing from source. The problem is also more complicated than that - there are two files that are freely redistributable (for certain constrained definitions of freely redistributable that involve, among other things, agreeing to indemnify VMware) vim.jar and vim25.jar. However the current implementation also makes use of vmware-apputils.jar (and another open source-based library) which is not freely redistributable based on my reading. The ASF could likely get permission to redistribute those files, but that permission wouldn't extend to other folks. Besides there are at least two other potential solutions to the problem that don't have the same license problems. (We are after all an open source software project) --David
