[Xastir] VMWare Player license

[vic]

How do you want to do it?  I have both Linux and Windows versions of Vmware. Licensed.
What OS's and what build of Xastir do you want in Player??
I would favor Suse but thats just my favorite Linux OS
So give me ideas and I may be able to work it out....
Vic



n Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:53:44 -0800 (PST)
"Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
> 
> > I thought per the license that vmware player could be freely distrubuted?
> > Only reason I ask, is that I use a script called Automatix that was built
> > fro Ubuntu to setup commonly used programs, and vmware player is one of
> > them. They can't distribute vmware server, but they can distribute vmware
> > player, did they get prior permission perhaps? just curious.....
> >
> > I wouldn't mind taking a crack at building something that could run Xastir,
> > I could base it on Ubuntu.
> 
> Just read the license, that's all I'm saying.  Make sure you do it
> by the book.
> 
> If someone were to build one or more VMWare Player versions of
> Linux/Xastir, we could publish that far and wide on the APRS lists
> and probably get an influx of new users.  The easier we can make it,
> the more people will try it.
> 
> For what it's worth I'm installing VMWare Player now as an RPM file.
> I don't know much about it yet, but I've run a licensed copy of
> VMWare Workstation in the past so I expect it to be somewhat
> similar.  Hopefully the Windows install of Player is just as easy,
> but I'm not going to try it.
> 
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