From 3a751d848b5e94439df0558db49af409a5a4d0a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 18:41:26 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add reference for Samba history. --- gpl-lgpl.tex | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gpl-lgpl.tex b/gpl-lgpl.tex index 9a62475..c545368 100644 --- a/gpl-lgpl.tex +++ b/gpl-lgpl.tex @@ -576,7 +576,9 @@ to fuel a commercial system around that software. For example, consider the Samba file server system that allows Unix-like systems (including GNU/Linux) to serve files to Microsoft Windows systems. Two graduate students originally developed Samba in their spare time and -it was deployed noncommercially in academic environments. However, very +it was deployed noncommercially in academic environments\footnote{See + \href{http://turtle.ee.ncku.edu.tw/docs/samba/history}{Andrew Tridgell's + ``A bit of history and a bit of fun''}. However, very soon for-profit companies discovered that the software could work for them as well, and their system administrators began to use it in place of Microsoft Windows NT file-servers. This served to lower the cost of