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Re: VMWare for Debian?



On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:12:49PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Friday 04 August 2006 14:39, Carl Fink wrote:
> > > Now that FSW is in the process of freeing VMWare Server (it's already free
> > > of charge, and they plan to release the source, in some vague sense not
> > > made clear on their web site), is anyone beginning to think about a Debian
> > > package of it?
> > 
> > Probably not until after it's free by Debian's definition.
> 
> That would apply to having source packages, but why couldn't there be
> something like the acroread and flashplugin-nonfree packages?

The acroread packages are not legally redistributable (at least in the
US).  They are not official packages and are hosted from a server
outside the US.  All the flashplugin-nonfree package does is to download
the tarball directly from Macromedia and then unpack it on your system.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto

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