[Samba] how legal is samba

[rruegner]

Perhaps you should go out of win in total, like very other big cities and
companies
did and will do it in the future
Greetz
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Adams" <jadams at pmz.com>
To: "Philip Edelbrock" <phil at edgedesign.us>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] how legal is samba


> I understand that the smb protocol is not in any violation, what i was
> talking about was does setting up a samba box to authenticate windows
> users conflict with any laws, seeing as how you are now negating the
> requirement for a licensed windows server. I would love to get rid of
> our Win2k pdc but my manager is a little sketchy since we have been in
> the eyes of the BSA for some time now (another story).
> Jason
>
> Philip Edelbrock wrote:
>
> > SMB is a spec from IBM, if I remember right.  M$ implements it (or a
> > flavor of it anyway), but they don't 'own' it or have some proprietary
> > closed hold on the standard.  I.e., Samba is not reverse-engineered,
> > if that's what you are thinking.  It also can't be(?) used to
> > circumvent copyright, which is what the DMCA is all about, right?
> >
> > Be careful about posting stuff like this to the list.  It's flame bait
> > for sure. ;')
> >
> > Take care.
> >
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > Jason Adams wrote:
> >
> >> With all this DMCA crud, is samba a target for a IP case from MS
> >>
> >> Jason Adams
> >>
>
>
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