From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
To: support@remsnet.de
Cc: Simo <simo@samba.org>, Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>,
samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: The patents and license issue from microsoft regarding SMB implementation(GPL)
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:32:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150128223241.GA20885@samba2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-63673316-8fb5-49fa-88fb-f49ec5171631-1422473764690@3capp-webde-bs25>
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 08:36:04PM +0100, support@remsnet.de wrote:
>
> legal : maybe - without sign patent licenses agreements : allmost not.
> ...
> - M$ owns most of the smb Protokoll patents as they developed them..
> ...
> CIFS is m$ in clear words SMB protocoll based.
> Therefore fall under the M$ license rules .
In case anyone is worrying, the above is just wrong.
See here:
https://www.samba.org/samba/PFIF/
and here:
https://www.samba.org/samba/PFIF/PFIF_agreement.html
for details.
Jeremy.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-28 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-28 2:24 The patents and license issue from microsoft regarding SMB implementation(GPL) Namjae Jeon
2015-01-28 14:07 ` Simo
2015-01-28 19:36 ` Aw: " support
2015-01-28 22:32 ` Jeremy Allison [this message]
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