nss_ldap and openldap importing

[Brooks Davis]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 03:48:54PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> 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?

My life would be a heck of a lot simpler if LDAP support were included
in the base.  At the moment I'm using NIS in several situations where
it just doesn't cut it any more.  IMO we need (as a minimum) a modern
network directory service client in the base.  While a majority of
FreeBSD users may not need LDAP in the base, I would suspect that a
majority of machines would benefit from it.  A much greater portion of
machines would probably benefit from and LDAP client then benefit from a
number of the servers in the base system such as BIND (not a criticism
of having BIND in the base).

-- Brooks

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