p2pnet news | product news:- Samba says its adopting the controversial GPLv3 and LGPLv3 licences for all future releases.

“To allow people to distinguish which Samba version is released with the new GPLv3 license, we are updating our next version release number,” it says.

“The next planned version release was to be 3.0.26, this will now be renumbered so the GPLv3 version release will be 3.2.0.”

Just to make sure no one makes a mistake, “all versions of Samba numbered 3.2 and later will be under the GPLv3, all versions of Samba numbered 3.0.x and before remain under the GPLv2,” it says, adding:

The Samba Team would like to thank Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen and the Free Software Foundation for updating the GPL license, and also all the individuals and corporations involved in helping to create the GPLv3. We feel this is an important change to help promote the interests of Samba and other Free Software.

Samba says it’s an Open Source/Free Software suite offering file and print services to all manner of SMB/CIFS clients, “including the numerous versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems” under the GNU General Public License.

It’s also a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

Slashdot it!

Also See:
Samba – Samba Adopts GPLv3 for Future Releases, July 9, 2007
controversial – Microsoft doesn’t like GPL3, July 7, 2007

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