samba license change

Laurent Rineau laurent.rineau__fedora at normalesup.org
Tue Oct 9 17:25:01 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 09 October 2007 15:43:21 Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Yep, kde is stuck at GPLv2 for now(1), so looks like smb support will
> > have to be dropped, at least temporarily.

Please, no.

> Or keep around the GPLv2'd 3.0.x version as compat-libsmbclient  for
> KDE & others in the same position to link against, while the rest of
> the apps which can use the GPLv3 newer libs. Or bundle the older release
> libsmbclient.so inside the KDE  package in a private lib directory

We might have a problem if the SONAME of libsmbclient has not changed when the 
license has.

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