Subject: Re: [Netatalk-devel] Another reason to go GPL
From: wes@umich.edu
Date: Wed Mar 28 2001 - 11:07:31 EST
--On Tuesday, March 27, 2001 9:49 PM -0800 a sun <a.sun@sun.com> wrote:
> the issue with the samba locking code is very different as they don't
> provide standard api's that we can call without becoming
> GPL-encumbered. that's their decision. of course, we could always
> re-implement the samba locking scheme ourselves, but that would be a
> lot of duplication of effort to avoid a license change.
Also, according to the samba home page, they are planning to rewrite the
locking code. Perhaps they would be willing to make it LGPL, and provide
well a documented API.
:wes
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