samba - Oct 2000 - samba changes

Hi, we have a need for some changes to SAMBA.  While we could do these changes
in house we would rather have some experienced samba developers who 
understand NBNS perform the work so that it works the first time.  We are 
willing to pay for these modifications, however given that they are not 
likely to be of benifit to other users we would like them to remain our
property.

Basically the changes we require are that when the nmbd gets either a 
broadcast or unicast request it should attempt to look these up and if it
does not know the answer then return a default address, configurable in the
smb.conf.

Any advice on where to find someone to do this or a quote for the work would
be appreciated.

Thankyou
Andrew Wansink

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Andrew Wansink wrote:
> We are willing to pay for these modifications, however given that
> they are not likely to be of benifit to other users we would like
> them to remain our property.
Hi,

I'm afraid I can't help you out with the work, or with a quote, but I
thought that I ought to flag up a potential problem for you before you
spend any money ...

Anything you pay for is, of course, "your property" (ie. you own the
copyright). However, the tone of your comment implies that you want to
keep your changes proprietary. The *rest* of Samba remains the property
of Andrew Trigell, the Samba team, and other contributors. A combined
work consisting of "your property" and "Samba property" can
only be
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence, because
that is the only legal basis that you have for distributing the bits
that you didn't commission.

If you intend to copy or distribute your modified version in any way,
then you can't keep your modifications proprietary from people who
receive it (you must give them source code if they ask for it) and you
can't prevent them from redistributing the modified version or
publicising your changes.

If your modifications are purely for internal use, and you don't plan to
distribute the modified version, then this may not apply ...

Regards,
-- 
Neil Hoggarth                                 Departmental Computer Officer
<neil.hoggarth@physiol.ox.ac.uk>                   Laboratory of
Physiology
http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~njh/                  University of Oxford, UK