samba license change

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed Oct 10 13:27:16 UTC 2007


Once upon a time, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> said:
> If there any real expectation that issues not resolved now (while there
> is significant movement in this issue) will magically be resolved later.
> Is that expectation worth the complete packaging mess that this would
> create?

There is precedent; see the old MySQL client library licensing issues.
For a few releases, there was a compatibility library under the old
license until the issues were cleared up, and then the compat library
went away.

However, there was a SONAME difference there that made it easy to track.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.




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