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GPLv2 for cifs-utils existing?

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Hello there,

I'm wondering whether the cifs-utils are available licenced under the GPLv2? I only found it under GPLv3. Maybe there are specific circumstances under which the licence is changeable?

Thanks,

-Simon Brenner.

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Hello there,

I'm wondering whether the cifs-utils are available licenced under the GPLv2? I only found it under GPLv3. Maybe there are specific circumstances under which the licence is changeable?

Thanks,

-Simon Brenner.

No. It's GPLv3 and up.

We do occasionally dual-license some of the patches to make it easier to backport to older versions of the same tools in samba. The cifs-utils package itself has always been GPLv3 however.

Can you clarify why you'd like to see it as GPLv2?

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