On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 08:36:04PM +0100, support@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > legal : maybe - without sign patent licenses agreements : allmost not. > ... > - M$ owns most of the smb Protokoll patents as they developed them.. > ... > CIFS is m$ in clear words SMB protocoll based. > Therefore fall under the M$ license rules . In case anyone is worrying, the above is just wrong. See here: https://www.samba.org/samba/PFIF/ and here: https://www.samba.org/samba/PFIF/PFIF_agreement.html for details. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html