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Samba Adopts GPLv3 For Future Releases
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."
Couldn't it be implemented using a FUSE module?
From what I understand, the use of a system like FUSE skirts around most licensing requirements...
Personally, I think that GPLv3 was a very stupid move on RMS's behalf for reasons such as this. Sure, he helped establish the free software movement in the 80s and 90s, but ever since then, he's been somewhat of a burden to the community.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
RMS _wants_ Linux to get forked and to lose support. Then people will come help him with HURD.
The masses are the crack whores of religion.