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 caution you to pay less attention to RMS and more attention to reality. The two are not always in sync with each other...
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Matthew Vanecek
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