[OpenAFS-devel] Swapping OpenLDAP for Mozilla LDAP in ptsldap

Matt Benjamin matt@linuxbox.com
Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:29:34 -0400


Jeff,

Sorry--didn't mean anything by that. 

I was just checking, because my understanding is that openldap's client 
license _would_ be compatible with that of OpenAFS, whereas the of 
Mozilla _would not_. 

Mozilla's ldap.h states that the license is your choice of MPL 1.1, GPL 
2.0, or LGPL 2.1.

Matt

Jeffrey Altman wrote:

>I have made no statements regarding the OpenLDAP license nor have I
>looked at it.   What I told Brett when he asked was that if OpenLDAP
>was covered by the GPL there would be licensing incompatibilities.
>
>Jeffrey Altman
>
>
>Matt Benjamin wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I guess this question is for Jeff Altman then:
>>
>>Does someone think that the OpenLDAP client licence is incompatible with
>>that of OpenAFS?  It seems to be effectively equivalent to a BSD license:
>>
>>   http://www.openldap.org/software/release/license.html
>>
>>I thought the issue was with re-using parts of nss_ldap, for whatever
>>reason that was done.
>>
>>Matt
>>
>>Brett Trotter wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Thanks to a suggestion from Jeffrey Altman, it looks like the Mozilla
>>>LDAP
>>>client is licensed appropriately and my code might be adaptable towards
>>>its use. I'm going to see about making the appropriate changes so that
>>>the
>>>source is totally IBM Public License (read OpenAFS) compatible.
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