On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 04:49:29PM +0200, Davide Dozza wrote: > > Hello guys, > > does anyone knows the implications that the CIFS and SMB Microsoft > licenses may have on samba development ? > > http://news.com.com/2010-1075-882846.html
We're consulting the legal staff at the FSF for a definitive answer on this. More when we have a US legal opinion. In the meantime, don't panic. We don't think we infringe their patent claims (but this is why we're getting a legal opinion - to make sure this is the case) and the license is for CIFS *documentation*, not any code at present. The opinion of someone who has seen this documentation (not me) is that there is nothing in it that Samba doesn't already implement. In fact it is a significant subset of the SNIA CIFS documentation which the Samba Team has helped prepare. This license seems to have been created (IMHO) to create fear uncertainty and doubt amongst Samba users and vendors using Samba - such as the comments that have been appearing on this list :-). It's a classic marketing tactic I believe. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
