samba license change

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Mon Oct 8 22:25:14 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 00:34 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On 10/3/07, Simo Sorce <ssorce at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Samba has changed it's license from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+
> > The license change affects version 3.2.0 (still a pre-release now).
> > In F-8 we will still have 3.0.X so the change affects F-9
> 
> Looks like KDE may suffer from this, both kdebase and kdebase4 are
> labeled GPLv2 (no "+").

Is this because of the QT license?
If so it seem that QT has a lot of exceptions:
http://trolltech.com/products/qt/gplexception
I wonder why GPLv3 is not on the list yet.

Does anyone have more details?

Simo.




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