Licensing ambiguities with GPL and LGPL - was Re: Can Samba co-operate?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Dec 21 10:49:02 GMT 2001


On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:00:46PM -0600, John Malmberg wrote:

> It would be nice though if someone officially representing the SAMBA 
> team could issue a license statement that clarifies this ambiguity, 
> which could permit libsmbclient to be included as a plugin to other 
> products, so long as credit and copyright notices, etc. are followed.

Sure. We don't allow it. libsmbclient is GPL only, not LGPL.

Jeremy.




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