Re: samba license change

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

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.

Yeah, samba just ignores the problems that it causes for its
dependencies...