Re:Theo de Raadt on LLVM license change
by jra_samba on Saturday October 01, 2016 @01:05PM
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All companies who ship Samba in products use GPLv3. There are a lot of companies shipping Samba (one went out with a successful IPO this week). Thus your FUD is disproved.
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Many of them ship an old version from pre-GPLv3 times though.
Re:Theo de Raadt on LLVM license change
by jra_samba on Sunday October 02, 2016 @12:39AM
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The old version from pre-GPLv3 times is Samba 3.0.x. It's over nine years old.
No vendor ships that version anymore. I don't think modern Windows clients will even connect to it now (no working NTLMv2).
The ones who didn't want the GPLv3 (Apple) either wrote their own or purchased a proprietary third party server such as Likewise and were left holding a flaming bag of shit when EMC purchased the Likewise codebase and cancelled all existing support contracts. You'd think people would learn, but there are still vendors out there gambling on using proprietary third party SMB3 servers (hoping the same won't happen to them :-).
Well as a practical example, I checked the latest firmware of Asus RT-AC88U (HW seems to have shipped in Q4/2015) and the strings in /usr/bin/smbd (binwalk can directly extract the Asus .trx files) point to some derived version of 3.0.37.