[Ilugc] Linux usage statistics
- From: lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kenneth Gonsalves)
- Date: Fri May 28 09:17:19 2010
On Thursday 27 May 2010 21:03:18 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Samba4?
Yeah it is slowly and surely getting stable.
In fact Samba is an incredibly well funded open source initiative. It
is unfortunate it is GPL.
How so? None of the Samba developers would be working on the project if
it was not GPL. They were the earliest adopters of GPLv3 as well. If
it was a permissive license, it would have definitely been forked with
several proprietary variants.
please do not spread FUD. There is no harm if you want to use GPL - but to
spread nonsense that 'if it was a permissive license it would have ...'. Like
python, perl, php, postgresql, zope, django, etc etc etc. You just need to
look at one of your own distros to find the plethora of non-GPL packages there.
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regards
kg
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