[Pkg-samba-maint] Upcoming possible licensing issues kde vs samba

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 04:25:20PM +0000, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 11:45:49AM -0400, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> > You'll need to get TrollTech to add libsmbclient to its list of
> > exceptions for their GPLv2 only code.  I spoke with Jeremy Allison
> > (another Samba dev who spends more time on licensing issues than
> > I do) about this specifically a few days ago.
> 
> That's not sufficient, GPL 3 still can't link to it (even if it can
> link to GPL 3).  libsmbclient would need an exception for qt too.

libsmbclient doesn't need an exception as the LGPL3 license is
compatible with GPLv2 only, it's the GPLv2-only that's incompatible
with LGPLv3. Qt needs to add "and LGPLv3 code" to the list of
exceptions for compatible licenses.

Jeremy.