From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 10 22:49:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8511716A4DA for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:49:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C555D43D53 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:48:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6AMmvTc047974; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:48:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.6/8.13.1/Submit) id k6AMmsJl047972; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:48:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:48:54 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Michael Bushkov Message-ID: <20060710224854.GC47557@dragon.NUXI.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Michael Bushkov References: <44AD2569.9070007@rsu.ru> <44AD4D27.3060109@FreeBSD.org> <20060707015458.GC500@odin.ac.hmc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060707015458.GC500@odin.ac.hmc.edu> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nss_ldap and openldap importing X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:49:02 -0000 On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 06:54:58PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:49:27AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: ..snip.. > > > 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. > > > > My understanding is that we are generally trying to avoid importing any new > > code that has any sort of GPL license. That would certainly be my (personal) > > 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. Why can't this live in ports? In none of my environments do I need LDAP support. I cannot imagine most of our users need LDAP support either. Also, openldap-2.3.24 appears to be 19MB of files. Just what are we talking about importing? I assume just the 3MB of the library directory? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is top-posting (putting a reply at the top of the message) frowned upon?