Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 18:54:58 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Michael Bushkov <bushman@rsu.ru> Subject: Re: nss_ldap and openldap importing Message-ID: <20060707015458.GC500@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <44AD4D27.3060109@FreeBSD.org> References: <44AD2569.9070007@rsu.ru> <44AD4D27.3060109@FreeBSD.org>
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--Y5rl02BVI9TCfPar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:49:27AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Michael Bushkov wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm a FreeBSD SoC 2006 student, I work on the nsswitch/ldap/caching > > daemon stuff this summer. One of the tasks, that I have to do is to > > import nss_ldap into the source tree. I just want to check the situation > > with licenses. > >=20 > > nss_ldap uses OpenLDAP library, which uses OpenLDAP license > > (http://www.openldap.org/software/release/license.html). OpenLDAP > > license seems to be BSD-compatible - so there seems to be no problems > > with importing it into the source tree. > >=20 > > nss_ldap itself uses LGPL. As we use nss_ldap only as dynamic library, > > which is used in the "larger work" (which FreeBSD is), it can be also > > included into the source tree. So, we can import nss_ldap, by directly > > importing (with some specific changes, though) it and OpenLDAP into the > > source tree, can we? Just want to be sure that I understand licensing > > situation correctly. >=20 > My understanding is that we are generally trying to avoid importing any n= ew > code that has any sort of GPL license. That would certainly be my (person= al) > preference in any case. Unless we have someone crediably committed to rewritting nss_ldap I think this is a good place to make an exception. We can always remove it later if an implementation exists, but we could really use better integration with ldap. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --Y5rl02BVI9TCfPar Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFErb7yXY6L6fI4GtQRArRKAKCbcuBaj4ozG2LuWfHoPwg0CEoXVgCfWtzi dyW77Hr4t9gsg5b0cDYx+44= =msM7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Y5rl02BVI9TCfPar--
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