"Jeremy Allison - Sam writes with this excerpt from a news release
from the Software Freedom Conservancy:

Software Freedom Conservancy announces today Christoph Hellwig's
lawsuit against VMware in the district court of Hamburg in Hamburg,
Germany. This is the regretful but necessary next step in both Hellwig
and Conservancy's ongoing effort to convince VMware to comply properly
with the terms of the GPLv2, the license of Linux and many other Open
Source and Free Software included in VMware's ESXi products.

Serge Wroclawski points out the SFC's technical FAQ about the suit. One nugget:

This case is specifically regarding a combined work that VMware
allegedly created by combining their own code (���vmkernel���) with
portions of Linux's code, which was licensed only under GPLv2. As
such, this, to our knowledge, marks the first time an enforcement case
is exclusively focused on this type of legal question relating to GPL"

-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/03/05/1721231

Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/�� �� �� �� �� Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
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