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

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Tue Nov 13 23:47:26 UTC 2007


On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:09:51AM +0100, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> > Keeping around the current libsmbclient is probably ok.

> Is parts of the smbclient package also what you consider being libsmbclient ?

No.  But why should that be an issue?  These are general-purpose
executables, the GPL is generally not seen as applying across such exec
barriers.

(But then, why does kde need to exec smbclient instead of using
libsmbclient?!)

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