[Samba] how legal is samba

[Ed Holden]

Perhaps.  Perhaps not.  SCO has little ground against Samba under the 
DMCA, since none of the technology in Samba duplicates anything in SCO's 
UNIX offerings (thus there is no reverse engineering of SCOware being 
done).  Not to mention that SCO benefits from Samba directly, so even if 
they became completely schizophrenic in their legal crusades they'd be 
pretty stupid to shut down the development of a program that lets their 
servers replace Windows servers.

The only company that might use the DMCA in desperation is Microsoft, as 
some of their protocols are implemented in Samba.  But the phrase "their 
protocols" is putting it graciously, and even they might not have a 
legal leg to stand on.

-Ed

Rashkae wrote:

> On the other hand, it's only a matter of time before Samba becomes a
> legal target for SCO.  (Tongue firmly in cheek, but sadly truthful)
> 
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 07:35:18PM +0000, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:18:13AM -0800, Jason Adams wrote:
>>
>>>With all this DMCA crud, is samba a target for a IP case from MS
>>
>>Short answer. No.
>>
>>Jeremy.
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