samba license change

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Wed Oct 10 21:32:18 UTC 2007


On Mi Oktober 10 2007, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> ??? Even if you build against gplv2 samba, as soon as the result is
> distributed with gpl3 samba and links against it on user systems, you're
> in the wrong.

Is this really the case? Afaik the GPL only defines rules for distributing the 
software and rights for receiving GPL software. E.g. from GPLv3:

| 9. Acceptance Not Required for Having Copies.
| 
| You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a
| copy of the Program. 

Regards,
Till
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