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

Damien Zammit, le ven. 14 août 2026 23:10:46 +0000, a ecrit:
> 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?

License are not on repository but on source code and generated binaries.
That's one of the reasons why people recommend to always put licensing
terms at the top of source files.

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

Some tests in libfshelp-tests are GPLv3+ for instance.

Samuel