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[News] No Samba for Microsoft and Its Linux 'Partners'

  • Subject: [News] No Samba for Microsoft and Its Linux 'Partners'
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:33:51 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Samba will move to GPLv3

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| The Samba team will continue to provide security fixes to the GPLv2 
| versions, but new features will be added only to the GPLv3 versions, 
| the team said.
| 
| The Free Software Foundation has already released a number of elements 
| of its Gnu's Not Unix (GNU) project under GPLv3, including the widely
| used "tar" command for compressing and decompressing files. 
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6195601.html


Related and recent:

Microsoft Says It Is Not Bound by GPLv3

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| Microsoft cleared the air July 5 on its obligations to GNU General 
| Public License Version 3 support, declaring it will not provide 
| support or updates for GPLv3 under the deal it penned in November 
| with Novell to administer certificates for the Linux distribution.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20070705/tc_zd/210987


Apache Foundation Co-Founder Likes GPLv3 

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| "This what Apache has long wanted because we do want them 
| [GPL-oriented developers] to use it [Apache code], and we 
| didn't like even considering the prospect of GPL-only 
| re-implementations of our works just for compatibility's 
| sake." GLPv3, he added, "is good news, from my perspective."
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/07/apache_foundati.html


MS: Dancing as fast as it can to try to get away from GPLv3

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| Want to laugh? Microsoft Says It Is Not Bound by GPLv3" -- they think they 
| can so declare, like an emperor, and it becomes fiat. It's not so easy. 
| I gather Microsoft's lawyers have begun to discern the GPL pickle they 
| are in.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070705205728953

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