On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:36:41AM +0000, Paul Older wrote: > I think I'm unravelling the mystery I have on this one. I believe the > situation to be as follows: > > * Apple used to deploy the actual open source Samba system with it OSX. > * A few years ago, Samba made changes to their licensing meaning Apple > could apparently no longer use it in a commercial release (so I've read)
No No No !!!!! "Apple could apparently no longer use it in a commercial release" I *hate* this myth, it's *completely* untrue. Where did you read this ? Samba changed from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, a license that Apple lawyers helped to create (they were on the committees that did so). GPLv3 has provisions protecting projects from software patents asserted by contributing companies against Samba users and developers. Apple decided they didn't want to share their software patents with Samba or other companies using Samba, so decided to remove *all* GPLv3 software from their products. IBM, Google, HP, and many, many other large companies do not have a problem with GPLv3 code in commercial products, only Apple. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
