James Andrewartha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I think there are packages in Debian that are GPLv2 only, unless we >> want to try to track all of those down and somehow confirm that they're >> not using OpenLDAP. > Yeah, I did a apt-cache rdepends libldap2 and had a look through some > copyright files. Unfortunately the copyright files often say "GPLv2" > when the actual source says "GPLv2 or later", or in the case of pdns, > just "GNU General Public License" although it comes with GPLv2 in > COPYING. OTOH there's quite a few apps that have the OpenSSL exception, > but those are generally v2 or later anyway. Life gets even more complicated if we have to care about programs that use PAM and hence pull in OpenLDAP via pam_ldap, or programs that call getpwnam and hence pull in OpenLDAP via nss-ldap. It's never been clear to me if we have to care or not and different people say different things. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
