samba license change

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Tue Oct 9 17:56:37 UTC 2007


Once upon a time, Simo Sorce <ssorce at redhat.com> said:
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 19:25 +0200, Laurent Rineau wrote:
> > We might have a problem if the SONAME of libsmbclient has not changed when the 
> > license has.
> 
> There is no plan to change the soname, I see no reason for it to change
> as it is almost the same code and most applications are perfectly fine.

The soname should change for any incompatible change, and while it isn't
a technical change, the license change is incompatible.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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