The header of the file "files/5.0.0/vmware-linux-tools" in app-emulation/vmware-linux-tools-5.0.0 states: ===== #!/sbin/runscript # # Copyright (C) 1998-2002 VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. # Updated by stuart@gentoo.org to support Gentoo Linux # # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-emulation/vmware-linux-tools/files/5.0.0/vmware-linux-tools,v 1.1 2005/04/30 21:26:48 stuart Exp $ # # This script manages the services needed to run VMware software ===== This file takes the place of the installer/services.sh file in the original VMWare tarball. This file seems to be very different to the original file - as you would expect, given Gentoo's init system. Given this, *can* the file actually be copyrighted to VMWare? And if it isn't, wouldn't that preclude the distribution of the file in an emerge sync? I'm attaching a diff file showing the differences. There is code that is common to both, but not very much. I doubt that it could be copyrighted to VMWare myself. Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1400MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/ciaran/portage/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dga dvd eds emboss encode esd fam flac fluidsynth foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gmail gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java jbig joystick jpeg kde kdeenablefinal ladspa libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmxext motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg multitarget ncurses nls nodrm nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png povray ppds python qt quicktime readline real samba sdl slang sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts v4l vorbis xine xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Created attachment 71754 [details, diff] Output of "diff -u services.sh vmware-linux-tools" Diff file between the two files.
Hi Ciaran, I believe you're right, that the init.d script I wrote isn't really copyrightable to VMware. I'll address this bug when I add the workstationt tools for VMware Workstation 5.5. Best regards, Stu
I've removed the copyright notice from the ebuilds. Thanks for reporting this.
