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Here is the email where I requested permission to use the picture:

from: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>

reply-to: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>

to: "Don W. Carr" <doncarr@gmail.com>

cc: jra@samba.org

date: May 18, 2007 12:05 AM

subject: Re: My class is working on your Wikipedia article

mailed-by: samba.org

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:30:40PM -0500, Don W. Carr wrote:
> I teach "software libre" here in Mexico, and we would like to use the
> picture on your website, the one with the shit eating grin:
>
> http://samba.org/~jra/images/jeremy.jpg
>
> Do we have permission to release it under the GNU Free Documentation
> License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free
> Software Foundation? That is the standard for Wikipedia, and I do know
> you like the GPL.

Yes, please feel free to use it under that license (a friend
of mine took the picture with my camera). But please don't
call it a "shit eating grin" :-). I really don't eat shit...

> Also, do we have permission to include quotes from some of your low
> point articles? Again, GNU Free Documentation License.

Yes.

> We are also going to do some updates to the SAMBA wikipedia page, as
> it does not even include your name!! How could they write about SAMBA
> and not include your name??
>
> Myself, I do free software for control systems (all GPL), and have
> been working on software for the light rail system here in
> Guadalajara.

Glad to hear it ! If I ever get to give a talk in Mexico
I'll buy you a beer (I'm in California but no one ever
invited me to give a talk in Mexico).

Cheers, Jeremy.

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