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Samba Adopts GPLv3 For Future Releases

Posted by kdawson on from the first-trickle-in-the-flood dept.

Jeremy Allison - Sam writes with news that the Samba Team has decided to adopt the GPLv3 and LGPLv3 licenses for all future releases of Samba. Follow the link for a FAQ addressed to Samba developers and contributors. "To allow people to distinguish which Samba version is released with the new GPLv3 license, we are updating our next version release number. The next planned version release was to be 3.0.26, this will now be renumbered so the GPLv3 version release will be 3.2.0. To be clear, all versions of Samba numbered 3.2 and later will be under the GPLv3, all versions of Samba numbered 3.0.x and before remain under the GPLv2."

4 of 219 comments (clear)

  1. Re:smbfs? by Jeremy+Allison+-+Sam · · Score: 5, Informative

    smbfs has been dead for a while. The replacement is CIFSFS. Luckily (or unluckily, depending on your point of view :-) this isn't a Samba project, it's developed by Steve French of IBM, and I think it's under GPLv2 or later.
    Jeremy.

  2. Re:More like, who re-packages it. by Jeremy+Allison+-+Sam · · Score: 4, Informative

    I doubt that. Why would NAS vendors need to fork ? It's not like dealing with GPLv3 is harder than dealing with GPLv2. I expect our vendors to just roll along with us, as will and vendor that doesn't have "discriminatory" patent agreements.
    Jeremy.

  3. Re:Free software my ass by WaXHeLL · · Score: 4, Informative

    Write code you love and let it go free. If someone else makes money from it, BFD. "RMS" can go shove it.

    That's called the BSD license.
    http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
    --
    The troll with karma.
  4. Re:In other news... by Jeremy+Allison+-+Sam · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's funny, according to this page :

    http://freshmeat.net/stats/

    fully 65.74% are under the GPL with an additional 6.53% under the LGPL. If anyone is cutting themselves off from the mainstream it would be BSD and other types of license, it seems :-).

    Jeremy.