Morrissey and Johnny said in a few interviews that there is no way the Smiths will ever re-unite, but that they still respect each other and have no hard feelings towards each other, not even ruling out the option of a Morrissey-Marr collaboration.
Imagine this would indeed happen, Marr and Moz come back together but without Andy and Mike (but with a different bass player and drummer), do you think they would have the right to use the moniker The Smiths based on the fact that they wrote the songs? Or would you say it'd be blasphemy to see a different line-up than the original?