MozLDAP folks,

No doubt this is an oft repeated request, but here goes.

Is there a particular reason that Netscape/iPlanet/whoever wishes to
retain the C-SDK under the NPL, but is content to release NSPR and NSS
under the MPL/GPL combination? If not, any chance of a license change to
MPL/GPL?

I'm writing an LDAP aware app, and would like an LDAP and TLS capable
client component, but the rest of my libraries are GPL'ed. Thus, no go
with the C-SDK. Of course, I can use the OpenLDAP libraries, but its
TLS capabilities are a tad poor, and rely on OpenSSL which isn't
compatible with the GPL. Apart from anything else, my crypto capabilities
are provided via NSS. I guess that I'll just have to do without TLS for
the moment.

Just seems a pity that the C-SDK maintainers don't want to (or can't) go
that last little bit. Is this a conscious decision (ie to retain NPL),
or is it just that it's been left in this state from previous releases
and no-one's bothered to reconcile the license with so much else of the
Mozilla codebase?

Cheers,

Neil

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