samba license change
Matthias Clasen
mclasen at redhat.com
Tue Oct 9 13:39:15 UTC 2007
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...
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