samba license change
Lubomir Kundrak
lkundrak at redhat.com
Tue Oct 9 06:39:26 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 11:56 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Simo Sorce wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> Last I heard TrollTech was still evaluating this option.
>
> http://chani.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/uhoh/#comment-1932
>
> Essentially unless the entire dependency chain for Samba is GPLv3
> compatible, a new samba version under GPLv3 or later would be impossible
> to pull as incompatible licensing is a liability for the distribution
> and not necessarily for the individual components.
This also applies to the patches from the samba upstream. Simo: do you
have an idea wheter it would be possible to convince the samba upstream
to release at least security fixes for samba under GPLv2?
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Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)
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