Re: [Evolution] Possible solution to LDAP license issues

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On 10 Apr 2001 10:55:31 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've had two ideas about the LDAP problem:
>
> 1) http://www.mozilla.org/directory/csdk.html - the Mozilla C SDK for
> LDAP.


This sounds like a good approach, this is what we used to get around the
openssl thing too, assuming it is appropriately licensed.

> 2) Is the LDAP support seperate to the main evolution executable, or is
> it built in to the executables?  If it's a component, then how about
> distributing source RPMs which link to a LDAP library.  The user then
> builds it which links to the users LDAP libraries, whatever they may be.
> I'm not a GPL/C/LDAP wizard so I don't know how viable this is.

And try to get around the spriit of the license?  Whose side are we on
here?