Re: [PATCH 0/4 incubator] smbfs - update to new samba api

On 8 August 2026 02:09:51 BST, Damien Zammit <[email protected]> wrote:
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>Hi,
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>This needs testing on a samba share, but should bring smbfs into a
>state where it could be upstreamed into hurd.
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>The only outstanding issue I can see is the licensing:
>Some files are marked GPLv3+ some are GPLv2+.
>Perhaps we can get permission from the two authors to relicense the
>files all to GPLv2+ for consistency so it can be merged as is into hurd?
>(But it looks like FSF might already hold the copyright?)
>How do we find out?

hmm, if new files were to be created in hurd, you would have to sign some
sort of document, in [email protected]... So FSF holds the copyright


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>Thanks,
>Damien
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Thanks!