pam_smbpass licensing

[James Peach]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 04:38:50PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 13:47, James Peach wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I notice that pam_smbpass is licensed under the GPLv2. What are the
> > implications for using this on a system with some GPL programs and some
> > proprietary programs?
> > 
> > I'm a little confused, particularly in light of the lengths winbind goes
> > to to keep the client-sode code LGPL ..
> 
> It's actually pretty simple - pam_smbpass was not written with this as a
> design objective, while the winbind code was.  Because pam_smbpass calls
> directly into our core passdb code, it must be GPL licenced.

Understood. Can pam_smbpass still be used with non-GPL programs?

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