Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:51:17 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>, FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: VMWare licensing Message-ID: <p04330117b648dafd90c7@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1001127213502.88537B-100000@localhost> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1001127213502.88537B-100000@localhost>
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At 9:38 PM -0500 11/27/00, Chris Hill wrote: >Does FreeBSD, Inc. have some special deal set up with VMWare? >AFAIK VMWare has always been commercial (pay) software, yet >it's in the ports collection. I'm not complaining, but what's >up with that? > >Also, there is a note on VMWare's web site stating "On Dec. 4 >our company will discontinue the current hobbyist pricing and >begin charging a standard $299 fee..." Will this policy change >on their part have any effect on VMWare's existence as a port? The port just gets the file from vmware's site. If you go to vmware's site, you can download a demo-version of vmware which works for some period of time (30 days?). If you buy a license from them, all you get is something which prevents the "demo" version from expiring. freebsd's port is not doing anything to get around any of vmware's licensing. Similarly with the new policy. As long as we can download the "demo" version for free, the port does not have to change. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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