So, you mean that if you read, you are dead.... It sounds interesting. I have to read more carefully the licenses.
Regards, Davide Jeremy Allison wrote: > 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