[Freeipa-users] IPA/SASL Implementation

[Simo Sorce]

On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 05:42 -0800, Daniel Qarras wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I was reading the FreeIPA License page at
> 
> http://www.freeipa.org/page/License
> 
> and I found out the not-so-clear licensing terms of Cyrus SASL
> package. This made me wonder has it been considered to use LGPL
> licensed GNU SASL in IPA instead of Cyrus SASL? GNU SASL pages are at:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/
> 
> This is more an academic question than a real issue with Cyrus SASL
> (at least for the moment) but I think simplifying licensing terms
> would always be beneficial.

We actually have not considered it, and we do not own all the components
of FreeIPA that uses SASL. But thanks for pointing out, I will take a
look at it.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York