[Fedora-legal-list] Heads-up on new Samba4 licence

[Andrew Bartlett]

Samba4 (which is under review for inclusion into Fedora) will soon ship
some data (the Active Directory schema) under less-than-usual licence
terms.

The attached file gives the text.  

I believe it is no less free than Free licences on Fonts that require
redistribution with software.

The review ticket is: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453083

If this causes a problem, presumably the packager can strip
setup/ad-schema (and the whole server implementation) from the tarball.

Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett
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Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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NOTE:

The licence on these schema files is not GPL, or a standard Open
Source licence.  Be careful to redistribute thes files as part of
Samba or 'your implementation', but not alone.

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