Re: nss_ldap and openldap importing

在 2006-07-06四的 18:59 +0400，Michael Bushkov写道：
> 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.

I think OpenLDAP code evolves very fast and maintaining the whole
library in the base system would be more or less painful at the moment.
Would you please consider renaming the library to avoid collision with
the ones installed with port, if we finally want to import the stuff?

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij delphij net>    http://www.delphij.net/