[Gllug] anti-GPL licence

[Bruce Richardson]

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

-- 
Bruce

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