Samba draait op Unix-, BSD- en Linux-servers, en is een opensource-implementatie van het smb/cifs-netwerkprotocol. Ook kan Samba file- en printservices aan Windows-clients aanbieden, en is het in staat om als domaincontroller binnen Active Directory te fungeren. Uitgebreide documentatie, inclusief praktische how-to’s voor een iets oudere versie, kan op deze pagina worden gevonden. De ontwikkelaars hebben versies 4.14.0, 4.13.5 en 4.12.12 klaargezet, met de volgende aankondigingen: Samba 4.14.0 Available for Download This is the first stable release of the Samba 4.14 release series. Please read the release notes carefully before upgrading. NEW FEATURES/CHANGES Here is a copy of a clarification note added to the Samba code in the file: VFS-License-clarification.txt. A clarification of our GNU GPL License enforcement boundary within the Samba Virtual File System (VFS) layer. Samba is licensed under the GNU GPL. All code committed to the Samba project or that creates a “modified version” or software “based on” Samba must be either licensed under the GNU GPL or a compatible license. Samba has several plug-in interfaces where external code may be called from Samba GNU GPL licensed code. The most important of these is the Samba VFS layer. Samba VFS modules are intimately connected by header files and API definitions to the part of the Samba code that provides file services, and as such, code that implements a plug-in Samba VFS module must be licensed under the GNU GPL or a compatible license. However, Samba VFS modules may themselves call third-party external libraries that are not part of the Samba project and are externally developed and maintained. As long as these third-party external libraries do not use any of the Samba internal structure, APIs or interface definitions created by the Samba project (to the extent that they would be considered subject to the GNU GPL), then the Samba Team will not consider such third-party external libraries called from Samba VFS modules as “based on” and/or creating a “modified version” of the Samba code for the purposes of GNU GPL. Accordingly, we do not require such libraries be licensed under the GNU GPL or a GNU GPL compatible license.
