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Hour 1: Introduction to Samba
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Many OSS projects are released under the GNU GPL developed by the Free Software Foundation. The spirit of the GPL is to allow software to be distributed and require that
Without stating the specific sections, the following excerpt from the GPL Preamble explains the intent of the license:
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things.
To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the software or if you modify it.
The idea behind copying and distributing the free software is fairly self explanatory. The sections about modifying software licensed under the GPL might need a little more explaining.
2b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
Section 2, part b of version 2 of the GPL states that any work derived from any other software licensed under the GPL must also be GPL. By doing this, the license ensures that software released under the GPL will always be free even if new changes are incorporated into existing code or the software is absorbed into another project.
The FSF has more information describing the philosophy behind free software and the GPL on its Web page at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy.
Samba is distributed under version 2 of the GPL. The full text of this license is included with the Samba distribution on the accompanying CD-ROM. For more information about the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project, contact the following:
Free Software Foundation
675 Mass Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
http://www.gnu.org
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