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On Tuesday 10 July 2007 17:30, Rob Beard wrote: > Just seen on The Register that Samba is signing up for GPL v3 (link > here: http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/07/10/samba_signs_to_gplv3/) > > It looks like anything from Samba 3.2.x onwards will be under GPL3. > With Samba now being a pretty big part of linking Linux machines to > Windows and vice versa, does this mean it's going to leave distros > such as Novell SUSE out in the cold, or would they have to fork the > Samba code from 3.0.x and maintain their own version of Samba? > > Presumably Novell can't use anything licenced under GPL v3 for future > distro releases because of their link with Microsoft? (or am I > completely wrong here?). > > Rob I believe that GPLv3 has allowed for the MS/Novell deal. Jeremy stated on Slashdot that he saw no reason why Novell could not include the GPLv3 licenced Samba in future releases - "You'll have to ask Novell if they'll include it in SuSE, but I don't see why not. Jeremy." Above quote taken from the /. "discussion" on Samba and GPLv3 at - http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/09/2224257 Mark -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html