nss_ldap and openldap importing

[Brooks Davis]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:49:27AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> 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.

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.

-- Brooks

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