On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:16 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > >>> It was - the docs for the version that was around in early '09 *said* >>> that the latest release was based on RHEL 3. >> >> You are supposed to be able to download the open source components here: >> http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/5_0#open_source >> but all I see is a license file - that does mention the 2.6 kernel and >> drivers. > > Yeah, well, the RHEL stuff I assume is released; their own heavy > enhancements, I don't know. > It doesn't matter if someone else released source. Anyone distributing binaries containing GPL code is supposed to also supply the matching source along with anything else that becomes part of a derived work. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com