Re: [open-vm-tools-devel] Possible license problem

[Adar D. <ad...@vm...>]

> I think it might be safe to remove the notice, but I'll double check with
> our legal department and ping the xorg guys. Thanks for reporting this
> issue.

OK, I just committed a patch that modifies the DEC license in region.c according to what I found in http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283. Basically, we forked miregion.c a long time ago (from RealVNC, and they forked it from XFree86), back when the license was less permissive. Since then, the xorg guys got permission from Compaq to alter the license.

What I did was refork miregion.c from xorg and apply all open-vm-tools region.c patches to it other than the existing license. This patch is now in git and will also be in the next open-vm-tools code refresh.