nss_ldap and openldap importing

[Doug Barton]

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

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