samba license change

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Tue Oct 9 16:51:39 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 09:39 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 09:34 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 11:56 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > 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. 
> > 
> > It's the other way around, it is KDE (Konqueror uses libsmbclient) that
> > depends on Samba, Samba has no dependency problems at all.
> 
> Yeah, samba just ignores the problems that it causes for its
> dependencies...

Excuse me ?

Simo.




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