On Sunday 05 November 2006 10:16, jfweber@gilweber.com wrote:
I could be completely wrong here, but isn't Novell only going to pay royalties for things like Samba and other items that "connect" to Windows ?
Why would Novell pay royalties for something they did not develop and which (I believe) is under GPL already. The only way I see this happening is if the SMB/CIFS protocol changes drastically in the future, and Microsoft offers support or documentation of the changes. Still, Novell's announced policy of no Binary Blobs in in the distro this would have to be source re-distributable (code) unless its Novell's intent to take Samba out of the distro in favor for some licensed replacement. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen