On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 08:33 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > Ville Skyttä wrote: > > > On 10/3/07, Simo Sorce <ssorce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Samba has changed it's license from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+ > >> The license change affects version 3.2.0 (still a pre-release now). > >> In F-8 we will still have 3.0.X so the change affects F-9 > > > > Looks like KDE may suffer from this, both kdebase and kdebase4 are > > labeled GPLv2 (no "+"). > > Yep, kde is stuck at GPLv2 for now(1), so looks like smb support will have > to be dropped, at least temporarily. Would it be a problem for Samba team to make an exception from the license for KDE? At least for 3.2.0? It might be unlikely that it would hapen, and me, as non-lawyer, know nothing about the legal implications, but that might be one of ways to ensure availability of quality free software. > (1) qt is GPLv2, trolltech is evaluating GPLv2+ or GPLv3, but that's all > behind closed doors with no visible movement. There is a proposal within > kde to move to (L)GPLv2+. All of this is slow, tedious work, often > blocking on lawyers, and we all know how fast they are. > > -- Rex > -- Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
