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

[Ana Guerrero]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 05:11:52PM +0000, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Ana Guerrero (ana at debian.org):
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> So, will this mean a new upstream for KDE and, therefore, we would
> have to wait for it to upload samba 3.2.0 or is a relicensing possible
> with current 3.5.8?
>

No, i do not think we'll have this solved with KDE 3.5.8 (or later), that is
likely the version to be shipped with Lenny... in that page they are working
over the list of KDE4 files.
Plus, after the KDE project, we need Trolltech change the Qt3/4 licence. I guess 
in the end they'll change Qt4, but Qt3 has already reach end of life status, so 
I do not know...

> I'd of course prefer any solution that allows us to upload samba 3.2.0
> as soon as upstream releases it. Jerry, any schedule for the release
> of 3.2.0? You will probably release some rc versions, right?

We'll need maintain both samba versions in the archive or at least current
libsmbclient, that is what kde needs.


Ana