?: RegConnectRegistry for UNIX

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> Rich Pettit wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > An important question I have is this:  Since Samba 2.0 contains code that
> > implements library functionality, will some of the code be covered under
> > LGPL instead of GPL so that vendors can use these functions without giving
> > away the farm?
> 
> I can't speak for Luke, but my answer to that is always
> no. Samba consists of many people's work, and unless it's
> obviously one persons own work (like Lukes registry stuff)
> then it's not possible to split out the code so that a
> different license can be used for some of it and not
> others.

except that in this case, you would still need to write an smb library as
clientgen.c is where the dce/rpc code feeds into.
 
> Sorry, you'll just have to go "Open Source" :-). Join us,
> it's not so bad :-).

hey, the command-set of rpcclient needs extending, the api is already
there.  any takers?