samba license change

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 06:26:58 UTC 2007


Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 07:10 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
>>> In any case this is completely irrelevant, we are not asking anybody to
>>> go GPLv3, but to come out with a decision on what they want to do. Once
>>> that is clear we will know how to handle the situation.
>> Though I am strongly convinced about OpenSource and am usually
>> supporting it, for my own works, I have decided not to apply GPLv3 (at
>> least for now), because there are details inside I consider
>> counterproductive[1] and ... because I prefer not to expose myself to
>> the risks of this license :)
> 
> And we choose not to provide you with our software, except on the terms
> that we find best protect it.  We are very serious in this business, and
> have had more to do with the threats, protections and realities around
> GPL'ed software than many other projects.   We choose this licence for
> good reason, and after wide consultation. 

Did you mean to imply that the people using, say, the Apache license 
aren't serious?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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