[Samba] query

[Gerald Carter]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 surya.prasad at iflexsolutions.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We have a licensed product and are proposing to use Samba to share Unix
> directories on Windows clients.  Samba is no where integrated into our
> product. As a part of client setup we share certain directories from the
> client workstations. Samba being a freeware, how does it affect
> licensing our product? Are there any legal / commercial issues? Do I
> need to acknowledge usage of this component as part of our licensing?

You might want to look at how VMware does this.  They package Samba
for sharing the local Linux fs to Windows VMware sessions.
http://www.vmware.com/








cheers, jerry
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