GPLV3 license in samba3.3.4.

simo idra at samba.org
Wed Jun 17 17:44:24 GMT 2009


On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 11:28 -0400, Derrell Lipman wrote:
> 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.

Ouch,
I am sorry, I thought about the other libs and still wrote the wrong
thing.

Apologies to the list, I confirm libsmbclient is GPLv3 (no L).

Simo.

-- 
Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo at samba.org>
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo at redhat.com>



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