Re: samba license change

[Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net>]

Once upon a time, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet 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 hiwaay net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.