samba license change

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Oct 9 18:06:58 UTC 2007


Jeff Spaleta (jspaleta at gmail.com) said: 
> Samba as a project has every right to re-license its codebase as it
> sees fit. But at the same time, don't we as a distributor have some
> responsibility to make sure we introduce that change in such a way to
> minimize potential licensing violations? I think we do.

However, changing the license differently from upstream doesn't really
help anybody.

Bill




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