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From: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 04/10] VMCI: device driver implementaton.
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:18:52 -0700 (PDT)
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> For many many years, you shipped closed source Linux kernel drivers
> for
> your products.  Only recently has this changed.

and

> > all our Linux drivers, even if not all are upstream [yet], are GPL.
> 
> That's nice to hear, although without proof of that, we have to take
> your word :)

The following VMware drivers are in mainline Linux now (thanks to you and other members of the kernel community for that!)

vmxnet3: Tue Oct 13 00:15:51 2009 -0700
vmw_pvscsi: Tue Oct 13 14:51:05 2009 -0700
vmwgfx: Thu Dec 10 00:19:58 2009 +0000
vmw_balloon: Fri Apr 23 13:18:08 2010 -0400

Thanks

- Bhavesh