samba license change

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Wed Oct 10 09:47:52 UTC 2007


Le Mer 10 octobre 2007 06:06, Ralf Corsepius a écrit :
> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 13:38 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>
>> The bit that bothers me is that not only was Samba for the longest
>> time
>> mentioned in most GPLv3 news articles, we asked if anybody had a
>> reason
>> not to change our licence, and nobody gave a compelling reason.
> The rationales for projects not wanting to switch to GPLv3 are quite
> simple

And they don't matter in this case.

Simply put, you can choose your own license as you wish, but you also
have to respect the licenses of stuff you depend on (it's your choice
to depend on external projects, and your burden to bear).

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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