From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 6 17:49:29 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 AF38D16A4DA for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 17:49:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 244A743D4C for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 17:49:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 8370 invoked by uid 399); 6 Jul 2006 17:49:26 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.7?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Jul 2006 17:49:26 -0000 Message-ID: <44AD4D27.3060109@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:49:27 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Bushkov References: <44AD2569.9070007@rsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <44AD2569.9070007@rsu.ru> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:49:29 -0000 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. > > 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. > > 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. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection