Jeremy Allison

Jeremy Allison is a computer programmer known for his contributions to the free software community, notably to Samba,^[2] a re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol, released under the GNU General Public License.

Jeremy Allison
Born	1962 (age 62–63)
Nationality	British
Occupation	Programmer
Employer	Ctrl IQ[1]
Known for	Samba
Website	www.samba.org/~jra/

Other contributions include the early versions of the pwdump password cracking utility.^[3]

Career

Free software evangelism

During his career, Jeremy Allison has consistently defended the free software approach:

• He pitched making Vantive Corporation code free software to its founder.^{[citation needed]}
• He persuaded Michael Tiemann to use the GNU General Public License for Cygwin.^{[citation needed]}
• He similarly convinced Tim Wilkinson to put the Kaffe virtual machine for Java under the GPL.^{[citation needed]}
• He was involved in Silicon Graphics' decision to put XFS for Linux under the GPL.^{[citation needed]}

This commitment to free software culminated with his decision to leave Novell in protest of a patent deal that was considered by many as a FUD attack on Linux and other free software, and by Allison as breaking section 7 of the GNU General Public License.^[4]