Interestingly enough, this is *still* an issue (openSUSE 12.3, failure to launch GUI to enter license key, some shell script error). I had upgraded/re-installed OS, so still have my original (untouched) [OS-old]/etc/vmware, from which I simply copied the license file to [OS-new]/etc/vmware. And that worked. Thanks for putting me on the right track. And shame on VMware to still not have a solution for this.
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