samba license change

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Tue Oct 9 16:49:58 UTC 2007


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.

Ah and btw if someone can check what is the GNOME status wrt this it
would be nice. Nautilus uses libsmbclient as well.

Simo.




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