open-vm-tools for Fedora

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:35:34AM +0200, Denis Leroy wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >Furthermore 'vm tools' as a concept really shouldn't need to even exist.
> >Each bit of functionality should be integrated into the appropriate 
> >existing application or tool, so things 'just work' in a VM without 
> >needing install of special packages.
> 
> Send patches.

I already send patches for virt support to relevant applications.

I've no interest in sending patches to open-vm-tools as a project
because VMware require that you sign a contributors agreement.
This gives VMWare joint copyright assignment allowing them to use
all contributed code in non-open source projects. No thanks.

Daniel
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