[Samba] Samba 3.0.37 license confusion

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Tue Aug 19 03:06:48 MDT 2014


On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 08:27:51PM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> I had this come up at a previous employer, and in September 2011 I got
> this patch approved by the copyright holders on our private list. 
> 
> I don't see any indication of this making it into the GIT tree or a
> release tarball, probably because 3.0 is no longer supported in any
> fashion, but perhaps it should go on
> https://www.samba.org/samba/patches/

But as 3.0 is still really popular among many vendors, I
think for this reason only we might do another release. 3.0
still carries the GPLv2 promise, and we can avoid a lot of
confusion with our OEMs who can not switch to v3 code.

Volker

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