Samba into kernel

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Mar 25 09:46:01 GMT 2002


On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 12:28:51PM +0000, David Lee wrote:

> Now if Sun (or equivalent manufacturer) were to do it, and want to
> maintain their code private, I (though not a lawyer) see how that might
> well (almost certainly?) breach GPL.  But I'm talking about _us_, the
> Samba community, writing onto this alternative interface. 

Now that's more interesting. I don't think it would be legal for
Sun to ship such a thing, but I don't think it would be a problem
for us to ship it as part of Samba and have the administrator perform
the link.

Thanks for the clarification, I did misunderstand you,

Cheers,

	Jeremy.




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