Query regarding patent on compounding of request

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2015-04-10 at 10:55 +0530, anupam aggarwal wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I have a query regarding support of feature "Compounding of requests" in
> Samba.
> "Compounding of requests" is patented(
> http://www.google.com/patents/US8825885), will Samba be violating this
> patent?

This isn't a place to obtain legal advice, but you should have your
lawyers carefully read:

https://www.samba.org/samba/PFIF/PFIF_agreement.html

Andrew Bartlett
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