On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Dietmar Maurer <diet...@proxmox.com> wrote: >> > The documents says: VMware products are covered by one or more >> patents >> > listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents >> > >> > I simply do not have the time to check all those things, which make that >> format unusable for me. >> >> In think proxmox ships the QEMU vmdk functionality today? In that case you >> should check this :). > > Well, and also remove it from the qemu repository? Such things are not > compatible with GPL?
If you are really concerned about this then submit a patch to add ./configure --disable-vmdk, ship QEMU without VMDK, and drop it from your documentation/wiki. If you're not really concerned, then let's accept that VMDK support is okay. Stefan
