nss_ldap and openldap importing
Michael Bushkov
bushman at rsu.ru
Thu Jul 6 14:53:52 UTC 2006
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.
With best regards,
Michael Bushkov
More information about the freebsd-current
mailing list