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2014 May 21
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Linking libsmbclient with GPLv2 Code
Hello everyone,
I'm not sure who to ask about this, but I have a licensing question.
I'm writing a utility to allow Git to connect to SMB shares, which
uses libsmbclient. I was thinking about using libgit2 in my program:
http://libgit2.github.com/ . This library is licensed as GPLv2 only,
with a linking exception to link to any program without restriction.
My understanding is that, since libsmbclient is licensed under
GPLv3/later, and libgit2 is GPLv2 only, and since GPLv3 and v2 are
incompatible, I...