Re: open-vm-tools for Fedora

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Dario Lesca wrote:
Why Fedora not have in our standard repo the open-vm-tools package?

http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/

linux-0chi:~ # rpm -qi open-vm-tools-2008.04.14-21.1
Name        : open-vm-tools                Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 2008.04.14                        Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
....
Group       : System/Emulators/PC           Source RPM: open-vm-tools-2008.04.14-21.1.src.rpm
Size        : 1495998                          License: BSD 3-Clause; GPL v2 only; LGPL v2.1 only
....
Summary     : Open Virtual Machine Tools
Description :
Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source
implementation of VMware Tools.

It's a License Problem?
Or maintainer problem?

Neither, it's that out-of-tree kernel modules aren't allowed in Fedora.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=294341

Paul.

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