Re: Would I be violating the GPL?

[Jan Engelhardt]

Building for VMware Workstation 5.0.0.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.13-AS20/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD 
SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
  CC [M]  /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
  CC [M]  /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
  CC [M]  /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o
  CC [M]  /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/common/hash.o
  CC [M]  /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/common/memtrack.o
  CC [M]  /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o
  CC [M]  /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/common/task.o
cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wstrict-prototypes" is valid for 
Ada/C/ObjC but not for C++
cc1plus: warning: command line option 
"-Werror-implicit-function-declaration" is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++
cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wdeclaration-after-statement" is 
valid for C/ObjC but not for C++
cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wno-pointer-sign" is valid for 
C/ObjC but not for C++
cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wstrict-prototypes" is valid for 
Ada/C/ObjC but not for C++
cc1plus: warning: command line option "-ffreestanding" is valid for C/ObjC 
but not for C++
include/asm/bitops.h: In function âint find_first_bit(const long unsigned 
int*,
unsigned int)â:
include/asm/bitops.h:334: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned 
integer expressions
[...]



>> It does, to a limited degree. Just look at the VMware vmmon/vmnet driver 
>> sources.
>
>At least version 4.5.2 appears to be entirely c code to me.  What looks
>like c++ to you in there?


Jan Engelhardt
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