Hi!
I am the maintainer of jabberd14. In version 1.6.0 jabberd14 is
completely available with the exception of snprintf.c file in the
jabberd/lib directory which is taken from Apache and therefore licenced
under their (IMO compatible) licence.
The only remaining problem why I could not release the software under
GPL as the main licence is, that some people think, that using OpenSSL
might not be compatible with the GPL.
But in any case using jabberd14 without SSL/TLS support IS possible
using the GPL - which is anyway an improvement over the latest packaged
version of jabberd14 in Debian which is jabberd14 1.4.3.1.
The only place where this old version supports SSL/TLS is for accepting
connections on port 5223. I could imagine that a package, that has
problems using OpenSSL with the GPL licence, could build jabberd without
any SSL/TLS support (therefore not linking against OpenSSL) and use a
tool like stunnel to forward traffic from port 5223 to port 5222.
I am working on allowing to use GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL, but still
have to solve some issues I have with using GnuTLS.
And one note I want to add:
jabberd 2.x is NOT a newer version of jabberd 1.4.x / jabberd14 1.6.0 as
seems to be expected by a comment above. jabberd2 is a completely
different implementation of a Jabber server, accidently just sharing the
same name.
Compared using the "official" feature score at
http://www.jabber.org/software/servers.shtml jabberd14 1.6.0 does
support more features than jabberd2 does.
Matthias
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