On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Jeremy Allison <jra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:34 AM, James Bottomley > <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> That's one of these pointless licensing complexities that annoy >> distributions so much ... they're both open source, so there's no real >> problem except the licence incompatibility. The usual way out of it is >> just to dual licence the incompatible component. > > Just one point here - we're not able to dual license > Samba to go back to GPLv2 anything. There are too many > contributors to this who have contributed under v3-or-later > licensing in order for this to be possible for us. > > I'm hoping adding the 'or-later' clause to fio might > be easier. As someone who has worked for companies that distribute Samba for quite a while I cannot see us distributing fio. Rather, we would use it as a performance testing tool. That being the case, the license differences are not a problem. Am I missing something here? -- Regards, Richard Sharpe (何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
