Likewise Open: CIFS File Server and Identity Service

Obtaining the Source Code

Likewise Open is maintained in a git repository hosted at http://git.likewiseopen.org. Because of the use of the git-submodule feature, you will need need to install git v1.5.3 or later. More information on installing and using git can be found at: http://git.or.cz/.

The following set of commands will download the Likewise Open code base:

$ git clone git://git.likewiseopen.org/likewise-open.git likewise-open $ cd likewise-open

To build the code, please read the instructions in the README file in the top-level directory.

Important: In order to avoid any potential licensing issues we require that anyone who has signed the Microsoft CIFS Royalty Free Agreement not submit patches to Likewise Open, nor base patches on the referenced specification. We require, too, that patches submitted to Likewise Open not infringe on any known patents. Finally, as with all GPL work, the submitter should ensure that submitted patches do not conflict with any third-party copyright.

Contributor License Agreement (CLA)

Source Code

Likewise Software requires all individual contributors of ideas, code, work, or documentation to the Likewise Open Source Project must complete, sign, and submit (via email or postal mail) an Individual Contributor License Agreement (CLA).

Download Individual Contributor License Agreement

All contributions will be reviewed and considered for acceptance. Likewise will solely determine if the project contribution is accepted and will notify the contributor along with providing them a copy of the fully executed agreement.

The purpose of this agreement is to clearly define the terms under which intellectual property has been contributed to the Likewise Open Source Project and thereby allow us to defend the Project should there be a legal dispute regarding the software at some future time.

Likewise requires a signed CLA before it will consider acceptance of any contributions to the Likewise Open Project.

For a corporation that has assigned employees to work on the Likewise Open Source Project, a Corporate CLA (CCLA) is available for contributing intellectual property via the corporation as a whole. Note that a Corporate CLA does not remove the need for every developer to sign their own CLA as an individual, to cover any of their contributions which are not owned by the corporation signing the CCLA.

Download Corporate Contributor License Agreement

Report Bugs

You can help improve Likewise Open by finding and reporting bugs. We track bugs using, Bugzilla, for both Likewise Open and Likewise Enterprise. This is the URL to Bugzilla http://lobugs.likewise.com. If you have questions about writing bug reports, please read the instructions for submitting a bug to learn what information will be most helpful.

Develop Patches

Programmers can participate in the development of Likewise Open by submitting a patch as a suggested solution to an existing bug in Bugzilla.