Bradley M. Kuhn wrote the first draft of these principles on 23 May
2015. They were from there rewritten collaboratively over the following
months with the participation (in chronological order) of Karen
M. Sandler, W. John Sullivan, and Allison Randal.
This commit is the first publication of the principles on 1 October
2015.
The news announcement posted on Conservancy's site on 2015-10-28 at:
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/oct/28/vmware-update/
had additional facts. This commit incorporates those into the FAQ.
Additionally, a link to additional technical materials was also provided
that day.
The main change here is that the lawsuit FAQ page now shows one how to
verify that VMware combined Linux source code with their binary-only
components using VMware's ESXi 6.0 rather than ESXi 5.5 Update 2.
This required a couple minor path changes and updates to the memory
addresses and SHA-1 checksums. The analysis steps otherwise remained
the same.
The FAQ is now more generic in its discussion of the ESXi versions
that were originally analyzed, in order to avoid confusion with the
analysis provided in the FAQ, which uses a newer version and reaches
the same conclusion.
Some minor, unrelated fixes were also added. These include:
* add period at end of paragraphs where it was previously missing
* convert ">" in <pre> and <code> to ">" so the page is valid HTML
* convert "&" in <pre> to "&" so the page is valid HTML
* add missing 's' to "truct pci_driver"
* fix the "tg.c" filename - this should be "tg3.c"
Add additional information and details about the technical details of
the VMware violation. This extends the existing example with more
detail and improves various other parts related in the FAQ.
Written by Denver Gingerich <denver@sfconservacy.org> and me, this
description gives one example of how VMware incorporated Linux code with
vmkernel and distributed the resulting work.
