* Oliver Eikemeier (eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com) wrote: > > The reason I ask is that it would be difficult to support that using > > GNU TLS in place of OpenSSL and we're wondering how much interest > > there is for it. > > Because of licensing issues? Sorry, I didn't get the point. Afaik OpenLDAP > isn't GPLed? The problem comes up when a GPL'd application links, directly or indirectly, against OpenSSL. OpenSSL has a version of the famous BSD 'advertising clause' and that conflicts with GPL'd applications because it stipulates that derived works are not allowed to have more restrictions placed on them than those of the GPL. OpenLDAP gets involved because it can use OpenSSL and because things linking against the OpenLDAP libraries end up bringing OpenSSL into the picture. Now, we really want encryption and to support TLS in the Debian packages but there are alot of GPL'd applications that use the OpenLDAP libraries (a big one being samba). So we're working (and getting close to finishing I believe) on adding support to OpenLDAP for GNU TLS which doesn't have these conflicts with GPL'd applications. Stephen
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