LDAP (was: Re: [Evolution] still no contacts in 0.10: wrong db?)

[Mitchell Skinner <mitchskin home com>]

On 14 May 2001 12:02:47 +0930, Not Zed wrote:
> On 13 May 2001 00:21:43 -0500, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> > I'm rather disappointed that LDAP still isn't implemented. Can't there be
> > a set of files downloaded together, or perhaps an evoltion-noldap rpm and
> > evolution-ldap with accompanying openldap-client rpms? This is getting
> > ridiculous!
>
> Uh, the licensing issue still hasnt' changed.

Last I heard, someone had suggested the use of Mozilla's LDAP code, but
I never saw anything more about that.  Has anyone taken a look at this?
I have, and it looks like the code is under the Netscape Public License,
which according to the gnu.org license page is incompatible with the
GPL.  However, there is GPL mozilla code which links directly with this
NPL code, so I'm confused.

This certainly appears to be one of the most frequently requested items,
and frankly it would also help me out at work.  How hard is it to go
down the hall and talk to the lawyers?  Ximian does have lawyers, right?

Perhaps the people at Sun ireland can shed some light here, since
Netscape's LDAP stuff appears to have originated with iPlanet.  I know
there's at least one of you on this list.

Mitch