Re: why samba client uses LGPL license

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 18:32 +0800, Jedy Wang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As far as I checked  libsmbclient.h uses GPLv2 or later (newer release
> uses v3). Why samba client (gvfsbackendsmb.c and
> gvfsbackendsmbbrowse.c)of gvfs uses LGPL?

All the other modules a lgpl2+, i don't see why we should make our code
explicitly be GPL just because we link to a gpl library.

Of course, the effective license for the gvfsd-smb process will be GPL 2
or 3 whatever we do.

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