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Re:I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos by spookthesunset on Monday August 30, 2021 @12:41PM (#28357595)
Not to get political but I always thought it was a mistake to make "modern" samba GPLv3. All it did was make all these hardware vendors either stick with the older GPLv2 stuff or... I dunno what else they can do besides write their own implementation.

Samba is too much of an "infrastructure" codebase. It should have been BSD licensed. Vendors would have strong incentives to merge changes back into the mainline... none of them want to have their own wacko implementations.

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Re:I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos by sudosysgen on Monday August 30, 2021 @12:54PM (#28357785)
Samba operating on the application layer and working the way it does means you can totally ship a computer that runs Samba with the immediate tooling around Samba also bring GPLv3 and the rest being proprietary.
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Re:I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos by Someone on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:46PM (#28361265)
I don’t think there’s enough jurisprudence on GPLv3 to make that confident a statement.

I certainly can see the likes of Apple not wanting to take the risk that somewhere, a court will decide differently.

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