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

[Ana Guerrero]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 12:55:43AM +0200, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> Hi samba people
> 
> Rumors out in the wild says that the upcoming samba release is under some 
> GPLv3 (or maybe LGPLv3).
> 
> Qt (and thus kde) is GPLv2 only.
> 
> It seems to be that GPLv2 is incompatible with GPLv3 and LGPLv3, so if samba 
> gets upgraded to a GPLv3  version, we are going to have problems with KDE.
> 
> I don't know the proper solution to this - and a Qt + kde relicensing to GPLv2 
> or later isn't happening anytime soon. At least not within the next 4-6 
> months - maybe never.
> 
> I hope that you nice samba people with take this into account when doing newer 
> upstream samba releases.
> 
> (KDE uses libsmbclient)
>

Brief update of this thread, KDE people is working on relicense their stuff, look
at: http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_Relicensing

So luckily we'll manage to solve all the problems with KDE depends.

Ana