From 8daa83a594a2e98f39d764422bfbdbc62c9efd44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 19:20:00 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 2:4.20.0+dfsg. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- VFS-License-clarification.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 VFS-License-clarification.txt (limited to 'VFS-License-clarification.txt') diff --git a/VFS-License-clarification.txt b/VFS-License-clarification.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..491fb1e --- /dev/null +++ b/VFS-License-clarification.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +A clarification of our GNU GPL License enforcement boundary within the Samba +Virtual File System (VFS) layer. + +Samba is licensed under the GNU GPL. All code committed to the Samba +project or that creates a "modified version" or software "based on" Samba must +be either licensed under the GNU GPL or a compatible license. + +Samba has several plug-in interfaces where external code may be called +from Samba GNU GPL licensed code. The most important of these is the +Samba VFS layer. + +Samba VFS modules are intimately connected by header files and API +definitions to the part of the Samba code that provides file services, +and as such, code that implements a plug-in Samba VFS module must be +licensed under the GNU GPL or a compatible license. + +However, Samba VFS modules may themselves call third-party external +libraries that are not part of the Samba project and are externally +developed and maintained. + +As long as these third-party external libraries do not use any of the +Samba internal structure, APIs or interface definitions created by the +Samba project (to the extent that they would be considered subject to the GNU +GPL), then the Samba Team will not consider such third-party external +libraries called from Samba VFS modules as "based on" and/or creating a +"modified version" of the Samba code for the purposes of GNU GPL. +Accordingly, we do not require such libraries be licensed under the GNU GPL +or a GNU GPL compatible license. -- cgit v1.2.3