samba license change
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Oct 10 05:09:51 UTC 2007
Simo Sorce wrote:
> Well there are 2 possible situations:
> A) The projects that depend on samba are willing to address the
> licensing problem
> B) They are not
C) They are willing to consider a move but they need more time.
> If A we have time, we are talking about F9, plenty of time.
>
> If B then they have 2 choices:
> B.1) Drop functionality
> B.2) Implement/maintain/whatever their own SMB/CIFS support
3) Introduce a compatibility package and maintain it for a while before
sorting out the licensing details. Samba developers have claimed before
they will still provide security and bug fixes for the older codebase
for a while so this option is feasible.
Rahul
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