samba license change

[Rahul Sundaram]

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.

Rahul