Have thrown out the kerberos spnegohelp subfolder due to licensing issues. See below for reference.
fre 2010-01-08 klockan 20:36 +0100 skrev Henrik Nordström: > Ok, found the actual license now I think.. MICROSOFT LIMITED PUBLIC > LICENSE > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/cc300389.aspx#MLPL > > as indicated in > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/cc300389.aspx#D > > and as one can guess it is not GPL compatible. > > > fre 2010-01-08 klockan 00:00 +0000 skrev Markus Moeller: > > Hi Henrik, > > > > I assumed the same as the others that it can be used freely. This code is > > only necessary for older Kerberos libraries which do not support SPNEGO, so > > you may remove it. > > > > Markus > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Henrik Nordström" <[email protected]> > > To: "Jiri Skala" <[email protected]> > > Cc: "Markus Moeller" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 9:01 PM > > Subject: Re: squid_kerb_auth spnegohelp library license > > > > > > > tor 2010-01-07 klockan 11:03 +0100 skrev Jiri Skala: > > > > > >> There are sources in helpers/negotiate_auth/squid_kerb_auth/spnegohelp > > >> that aren't built in but the license is not acceptable for us. Are these > > >> sources really essential for the helper and must be in tarball? > > > > > > Hmm.. right that's a tricky copyright statement. > > > > > > That library originates from here: > > > > > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995331.aspx > > > > > > > > > When we merged the sources I read that as a permissive license, but I > > > see now that there is actually no usage license given at all, just "all > > > rights reserved" and "no warranty". > > > > > > The library is essential for the operation of that helper, but I guess > > > there may be other alternative libraries which could be used instead. > > > > > > I guess the best contact for this question is the author of that helper, > > > Markus Moeller, added as CC on this message. > > > > > > Markus, two questions to you: > > > > > > a) do you know anything more about what the licensing conditions of that > > > Microsoft sample code is? > > > > > > b) If unceratain, do you know any other spnego parser implementations > > > which we may use in a way compatible with the GPL license? > > > > > > The copyright blob in the spnego parser sources do not grant and rights > > > of use at all. > > > > > > // Copyright (C) 2002 Microsoft Corporation > > > // All rights reserved. > > > // > > > // THIS CODE AND INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" > > > // WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED > > > // OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED > > > // TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY > > > // AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. > > > > > > and the msdn article the code originates from also does not says > > > anything about licensing conditions. > > > > > > I see that the same code is used in libsmbfs shipped in both NetBSD and > > > zfs-crypto and a number of other projects, so I guess several others > > > have assumed that the code is meant to be used freely, but no actual > > > licensing conditions found anywhere around that code from what I can > > > tell. > > > > > > Regards > > > Henrik > > > > > > > >
