samba license change

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Wed Oct 10 04:22:03 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 19:56 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 10/9/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > I don't see any way out of a
> > maintaining a GPLv2 version of Samba for a while unless everyone
> > involved moves to GPLv3 or compatible licenses for their own software
> > quickly if they are dependent on Samba.
> 
> is kdebase/kdebase4 the only problem package(s) currently in fedora proper?

I think most of GNOME should be ok as it is LGPL or GPLv2+, the only app
I know that is v2 'only' seem to be Evolution, but I have no idea if
Evolution uses libsmbclient for anything, it seem unlikely, but it would
be nice to get some confirmation about that.

Simo.




More information about the devel mailing list