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

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 09:53 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 10:40 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I can't see it on the list, and I would be very supprised if it was.  It
> does however fall under the 'no patents' WSPP licence agreement that the
> PFIF signed with Microsoft, as Microsoft provided it to me under that
> agreement. 
> 
> http://www.protocolfreedom.org/PFIF_agreement.pdf
> 
> (It isn't much different to the rest of Samba in that regard)

Okay. I'll look over this and hopefully have this cleared before the end
of this week.

Thanks,

~spot