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Hello windoze lovers.
Samba 3.2.x in Cooker is licensed under GPLv3. Many applications linking to
the samba client libraries v3.2.x will be violating the GPLv3 license.
The problem is that the samba team didn't bother to change the soname (major)
for some peculiar reason (friggin morons!!!!). So the only way Mandriva can
ship Samba v3.2.x under the GPLv3 license is that we change the major
(library name) ourselves and provide a GPLv2 samba client library that some
specific applications must link against and for compability reasons, or that
we make sure everything that links against the samba libs is under the GPLv3
license.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.