[pca] EXTERNAL: Re: samba patch from oracle.

Paul B. Henson henson at acm.org
Fri Apr 20 23:52:31 CEST 2012


On 4/20/2012 8:22 AM, Wickline, Bob (N-STERLING COMPUTERS CORPORATION)
wrote:
> The problem with Samba and the Big-O is lawyers pouring through the
> license agreement and approving its distribution.  They do NOT like
> GPLv3...

That was the excuse for the ridiculously long delay in releasing samba 
3.5, but they've already approved distribution of samba under GPLv3, so 
it hardly seems a valid excuse for taking forever and a day to release a 
critical security patch.



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