?: RegConnectRegistry for UNIX
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at switchboard.net
Tue Nov 10 23:15:00 GMT 1998
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> Rich Pettit wrote:
> >
> >
> > An important question I have is this: Since Samba 2.0 contains code that
> > implements library functionality, will some of the code be covered under
> > LGPL instead of GPL so that vendors can use these functions without giving
> > away the farm?
>
> I can't speak for Luke, but my answer to that is always
> no. Samba consists of many people's work, and unless it's
> obviously one persons own work (like Lukes registry stuff)
> then it's not possible to split out the code so that a
> different license can be used for some of it and not
> others.
except that in this case, you would still need to write an smb library as
clientgen.c is where the dce/rpc code feeds into.
> Sorry, you'll just have to go "Open Source" :-). Join us,
> it's not so bad :-).
hey, the command-set of rpcclient needs extending, the api is already
there. any takers?
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