[Gllug] anti-GPL licence

[John Hearns]

On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 03:23, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 01:32:38AM +0100, Jim wrote:
> > Hi Bruce 'n' all,
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 10:52:29AM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > > The new anti-GPL license that MS is using 
> > > for SMB/CIFS, for instance, is a deliberate attack on Samba which could 
> > > affect a lot of us.
> > >
> > Could you be more specific about the above and do you have a link that I
> > could read up on please.
> 
> The new license for the SMB/CIFS references has clauses that forbid any
> derived product from beind released under the GPL, for a start.
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24885.html
> 
For those of you who haven't caught up on Slashdot this morning,
the Samba team have releases their response 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/29/2311200

http://us1.samba.org/samba/ms_license.html




> Bruce
> 
> Remember you're a Womble.
I'll be watching for you on CNN on Wednesday then?


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