Subject: Re: Another reason to go GPL
From: Bruce A. Burdick, Jr. (bucky@interaccess.com)
Date: Tue Mar 27 2001 - 13:27:38 EST
A reason not to go GPL: companies will be less likely to assist with
development if they can't release their own version without being
_compelled_ to give away everything they've done on it.
Perhaps Samba should consider the BSD license.
GPL: please don't.
-B...
> From: andrew morgan <morgan@orst.edu>
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:55:37 -0800 (PST)
> To: <netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, <netatalk-admins@umich.edu>
> Subject: Another reason to go GPL
> Resent-From: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> Resent-Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:04:14 -0500 (EST)
>
>
> Here's another reason we should go GPL with netatalk. Samba has a piece
> of code which does quotas on Veritas File Systems which I need to use at
> our site. Same problem as the file locking code though. We can't take
> GPL code and place it in netatalk without releasing netatalk as GPL.
>
> I may be able to get permission from the author of that particular piece
> of code to include it in netatalk anyways, but the samba project itself
> will not release the code for our use.
>
> GPL - just do it. :P
>
> Andy
>
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