Here is the press release from FSFE, the history of the case, details about the agreement, and the agreement text itself.
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who can license this?
Who can license this from PFIF? Only Samba implementors? What about some other free windows client based software (if there's a fork)? Or what about a proprietary software competitor to Microsoft?
About the licensing
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According to Jeremy Allison in this podcast, while only the PFIF gains access to the documentation on Windows (they paid the 10K Euros for it), the software that is developed from this PFIF agreement will be completely open.