Re: [Evolution] LDAP support

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Go read the page i referenced earlier.

End of thread.


On 10 Apr 2001 10:20:28 -0500, Matthew Vanecek wrote:
> On 10 Apr 2001 12:18:05 +0930, Not Zed wrote:
> > For now, you will HAVE to compile it yourself, we cannot distribute such
> > binaries as it voilates the license we have chosen to use for Evolution
> > - the GPL.
>
>
> Simply because the  Oh-So-Powerful-And-Wonderful FSF says that a license
> is incompatible with the GPL does not necessarily make it so.  I read
> the OpenLDAP license, such as it is, and I fail to see the conflict.
> You're not saying "Use Evolution because it supports OpenLDAP!"
> (although I have trouble seeing how one could POSSIBLY consider
> Evolution a derivative work from OpenLDAP!), and you don't call your
> product "OpenLDAP Evolution" or "Evolution-OpenLDAP" or anything like
> that.
>
> The only possible obstacle I could detect (using a VERY large leap and
> twisting as hard as I could, to make it an obstacle), is in section 6 of
> the OpenLDAP license--you must give OpenLDAP due credit.  Well, duh!
> ("We used OpenLDAP at http://www.openldap.org"; -- problem solved!).
>
> Distributing binary distributions of Evolution linked to OpenLDAP is not
> a problem because:
>
>         * Evolution is not a derivative work of OpenLDAP
>         * Even if Evolution *were* a derivative work, it does not use
>           the name "OpenLDAP" for promotional purposes
>         * Even if Evolution *were* a derivative work, it does not use
>           "OpenLDAP" anywhere in its name
>         * There are no restrictions in the OpenLDAP license on
>           distributing code which is linked to the OpenLDAP libraries,
>           nor are the re-distribution restrictions of OpenLDAP
>           incompatible with GPL (redistribution must contain a copy of
>           the copyright notice--sounds vaguely GPL-ish to me...)
>
> I've read the GPL as distributed by Evoluiton (v2, 1991), and the
> OpenLDAP license
> (http://www.openldap.org/software/release/license.html), both several
> times, and I fail to see the conflict.
>
> I caution you to pay less attention to RMS and more attention to
> reality.  The two are not always in sync with each other...
>
> -- 
> Matthew Vanecek
> perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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