Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
>>> http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/04/the-ides-of-march-approaches-for-novell/
> Seems like Samba may be about to take a serious hit. Linus has said the
> kernel will not be GPLv3'd, and parts of SMB mingle with the kernel, such
> as smbfs.
smbfs is just a module, if needs be it could be removed from the linux tree
and treated as a seperate "tainted" module if it includes any gpl3 code.
Then it'd just be like an nvidia driver (only with source code included) as
far as the kernel was concerned.
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