[ale] Microsoft CIFS & SAMBA

Charles Shapiro charles.shapiro at nubridges.com
Thu May 9 16:21:54 EDT 2002


Yeh, this is a bad thing. You can see the Samba response at 
http://us6.samba.org/samba/ms_license.html. Basically they don't think
it's quite so bad as various reporters are claiming.

-- CHS

On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 16:18, Jim Philips wrote:
> There is an infuriating and bewildering article here:
> 
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=70&e=2&cid=70&u=/cn/20020509/tc_cn/microsoft_s_file_share_rule_makes_waves
> 
> It's all about the new CIFS technical reference. In order to use the document, 
> developers must sign an agreement prohibiting use of information in the 
> document for building software governed by the GPL. This could have ominous 
> implications for SAMBA. See the article and read it to the end. This whole 
> issue has become part of the nine states' challenge to the earlier anti-trust 
> settlement.
> 
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