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

[Austin Gonyou <austin coremetrics com>]

This is why I'm confused. If this is an opensource project, then where is
the free thinking?(in this matter.) I don't care WHO's LDAP is used, but
it MUST be used, and for working towards a finished product, I would
expect something to come out of all of this. It's easier I guess to say
there's a licensing issue than to say, we've not really considered new
things. I'd prefer to hear the latter than the former. As I stated, you
can distribute 2 src rpms, one for Evolution-noldap and one with
Evolution-ldap. As a prerequisite, we leave getting openldap-devel up to
those who whish to recompile evolution, with ldap support. Why doesn't
this make sense? I'm confused about this.

-- 
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin coremetrics com

On 13 May 2001, Mitchell Skinner wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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