On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 02:00:25PM +0200, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > > Please have a look at http://www.vmware.com/ and help me > > decide if we can distribute VMware in non-free, or only as an > > installer package. I currently think we can only do an > > installer.. > > I can't find on the VMware site any permission to distribute anything, > so that'll give us only the option of an installer. Of course, you > could mail them and ask for distribution permission - if you get it, > this would be enough to allow it to go to non-free.
Maybe you'll get them to allow distribution, but I suspect everybody would still need their own license. You can either get a free license for 30 days at their web site[1], or you can buy a license. I doubt this will change, so any copy of VMware in Debian will be non-functional until you get your own license. VMware does _not_ work without a valid license file. Remco [1] After those 30 days, you can just as easily get another free 30-day license, and another, and another, etc., etc., until the VMware company stops giving away free licenses. -- rd1936: 8:50pm up 16 days, 9:14, 6 users, load average: 2.05, 1.59, 1.61
