Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Josh Triplett said: >> Daniel Baumann wrote: >>> Josh Triplett wrote: >>>> open-vm-tools serves no purpose without VMWare. Thus, it should go in >>>> contrib. >>> they are supposed to be vendor neutral, at some point. Rather than >>> moving stuff arround, I'd rather keep them in main and see what happens. >> The open-vm-tools homepage has some wishful thinking about hopefully >> working with other virtualization technologies eventually, but nothing >> concrete. Many packages in contrib could at some point go into main >> if they become useful with non-proprietary software, but that doesn't >> make it reasonable to put them in main speculatively while they still >> only work with proprietary software. > > Does this package require non-free sotware for compilation or execution? > Is this package simply a wrapper script for non-free software? > > If either of the above is true, move it to contrib, otherwise, lets > close the bug.
open-vm-tools requires non-free software (VMWare) for execution. Without VMWare, open-vm-tools will complain and refuse to do anything. open-vm-tools also fits the definition given in the last part of Policy 2.2.2: "wrapper packages or other sorts of free accessories for non-free programs." - Josh Triplett
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