--On Tuesday, October 03, 2006 1:24 PM -0700 Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Quanah Gibson-Mount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If this file is a non-copyrightable interface definition, the bug here
is the presence of a copyright notice and license statement where there
should be none.
ITS#4693 in the OpenLDAP ITS system.
Q, if you need help supporting this upstream, note to them that a literal
reading of the current license would say that you're not allowed to modify
the schema on your local system unless you write a completely new schema
from scratch without referring to that one. Which is kind of silly.
Official thoughts on this here:
<http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Incoming?id=4693;selectid=4693>
Unofficial thoughts here (from Howard Chu):
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I fail to see how any of this is the OpenLDAP Project's concern. The
Project provides a source code distribution, not runnable packages. Whoever
creates the runnable packages deals with packaging issues however they see
fit.
As a philosophical point - in the United States, every written work is
automatically covered by copyright at the moment of creation. You'll note
that practically every file in the OpenLDAP source tree is covered by one
or more copyrights. To assert that things that are copywritten cannot be
distributed freely is a rather peculiar viewpoint; things can be
distributed according to the License granted by the copyright holder. Where
upstream copyrights apply, the Project really doesn't have any choice in
the matter.
Not an official Project position of course, just providing my personal
perspective.
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