On Wednesday 02 July 2008 15:48:55 Ana Guerrero wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:47:03AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > That leaves only kdebase to resolve. > > > > I've heard from Simo Sorce, the member of the Samba Team who's > > responsible for samba packaging at Red Hat, that they consider the > > license issue resolved and that the next version of Fedora will include > > samba 3.2 only, with KDE linked against it. Fedora ships kde4. (+kde3libs +a very cut down version of kde3base) > > Can the KDE team confirm that this is accurate, and whether the > > relicensing of kdebase applies to the 3.5.9 version currently in lenny, > > or if it only applies to KDE 4 versions? as far as I know, the relicensing effort of KDE is primarily targetted at KDE4. One of the major blockers were Qt, which is resolved. > > I think either way we should try to push forward with samba 3.2 for > > lenny; it's just a question of whether we also have to invest time into > > getting a GPLv2 libsmbclient package ready. > > When we talked about this some months ago, nobody looked at the exact KDE > files because the main blocker was Qt3 licence, but this was updated in the > beginning of this year to GPL v3 too and current qt3 is lenny has an > updated copyright file. > > Then, in kdebase it seems the only code that links against libsmbclient is > the smb kioslave, the code is placed at kdebase/kioslave/smb/ and all the > headers say GPL v2.1 or later. If somebody wants to take a quick check to > see if i am overlooking something is welcome. But kdelibs needs also to get a look. At least in theory, it is LGPL, but it is some time ago I have last reviewed all files in kdelibs. > About KDE 4, Qt4 is gpl v3 too and what needs libsmbclient should be looked > at, but a relicensing in this case will be easy to get, i think :) Yeah. And there is also more help to get from other distributions. /Sune > [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_Relicensing -- How might I do for pinging to the Direct3D tool? First from the tools menu inside Excel you should reset the mousepad for overclocking the display. -- http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kde-talk