License issues

[Alex Larsson]

On Thu, 24 May 2001, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:

> > So, all I need to do is write libsmb.so an put it in the right dir,
> > and suddenly Nautilus can browse SMB shares if the user enters
> > smb://server/share in the location entry.
>
> Please note that there is an Internet Draft for the SMB URL.
>
> See:
>   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-crhertel-smb-url-00.txt

Thanks. This is good information.

> For more information on SMB/CIFS, see also:
>
>   http://jcifs.samba.org/
>   http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/
>   http://www.ubiqx.org/libcifs/
>
> Due to the peculiarities of the Java language, the jCIFS project (listed
> above) is released under the LGPL.  Can you compile Java into a .so?

It might be possible with gcj, but it would probably be a huge pain in
the ass for users to build.

/ Alex