Re: [Evolution] LDAP support / GPL Issues

2001-04-11 Thread George Farris
I stand corrected. Although the "As far as I know" bit is up for debate:-) On 12 Apr 2001 02:10:27 +0500, Dan Winship wrote: > > Ya right. Our friendly BSD license is the reason Microsoft was able to > > make proprietary changes to kerberos and not release it to the rest of > > us. > > No. Mic

Re: [Evolution] LDAP support / GPL Issues

2001-04-11 Thread Dan Winship
> Ya right. Our friendly BSD license is the reason Microsoft was able to > make proprietary changes to kerberos and not release it to the rest of > us. No. Microsoft "embraced and extended" the Kerberos *protocol* (as specified in RFC 15whatever). As far as I know, they didn't use a single line

Re: [Evolution] LDAP support / GPL Issues

2001-04-10 Thread Austin Gonyou
Here here. I do agree with this point as well. Man this licensing stuff gets confusing. -- Austin Gonyou Systems Architect Coremetrics, Inc. Phone: 512-796-9023 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10 Apr 2001, George Farris wrote: > On 10 Apr 2001 12:28:52 -0400, Mark Tolman wrote: > > Just a thought,

Re: [Evolution] LDAP support / GPL Issues

2001-04-10 Thread George Farris
On 10 Apr 2001 12:28:52 -0400, Mark Tolman wrote: > Just a thought, but it is well known that the GPL is not business > friendly. This is just one example of that. Perhaps you should think > about using another license that is open source friendly and will allow > you to link to the needed LDAP

[Evolution] LDAP support / GPL Issues

2001-04-10 Thread Mark Tolman
Just a thought, but it is well known that the GPL is not business friendly. This is just one example of that. Perhaps you should think about using another license that is open source friendly and will allow you to link to the needed LDAP libs. Maybe the BSD license? I'm not a legal expert, but