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

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Sun Dec 21 15:40:10 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 10:18 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 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, do you know if these specific schemas fall under the OSP?

~spot




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