GPLV3 license in samba3.3.4.

Derrell Lipman derrell.lipman at unwireduniverse.com
Wed Jun 17 15:28:45 GMT 2009


On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:17 AM, simo <idra at samba.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 20:56 +0530, karthikeyan.chetty at wipro.com wrote:
> > Dear Team,
> >
> >    Anyone please help me to understand the feature difference between
> > GPLV3 & LGPLV3 , Is that Samba 3.3.4 is using GPLV3?
>
> Samba uses mostly the GPLv3 license, although some libraries like
> libsmbclient are released under the LGPLv3 license.
>
>
Actually, libsmbclient isn't (yet) one that's released under LGPL. (I'm
hoping that someday it will be.) There are other libraries (e.g. talloc)
that are released under LGPLv3, though.

Derrell


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