Re: [PATCH 2/2 incubator] smbfs: Relicense back to GPLv2+

Damien Zammit <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.hurd.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On 15/8/26 9:03 am, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Damien Zammit, le ven. 14 août 2026 22:56:22 +0000, a ecrit:
>
>> While this is a backward step, it would be required, eg
>> for upstreaming this code into Hurd until Hurd is GPLv3+.
>
> I don't really see why smbfs being GPLv3+ would be a problem?

I just assumed the licencing should be compatible if published in the same repo?

If the OS is a collection of variously licenced binaries already, this
may not be the case and this patch may be dropped.

Thanks,
Damien
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