[ale] vmware kernel

[Brian Pitts]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 09:17 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:

> Maybe I'm not being clear.  I perfectly understand that you can write 
> proprietary code to run on top of linux without publishing your code. 
> What I'm asking is, if the version of vmware that runs on bare metal, 
> ie, ESX, is based on the Linux kernel, then they should have to publish 
> their code.

It seems that vmkernel isn't derived from linux, so the source isn't available. Other code is.

>From http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/esx_server.html

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-Brian