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RE: Excluding log4cpp


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  • From: "Scott Cantor" <>
  • To: "'Girish Sundarraj'" <>
  • Cc: <>
  • Subject: RE: Excluding log4cpp
  • Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 11:10:19 -0400
  • Organization: The Ohio State University

> One quick question! Can we by any way exclude log4cpp from our openSAML
> C++ build.

Sure, by editing the code and removing all the logging calls.

> Is there any provision to do so? If so what would be the
> impact? If not possible can we alter openSAML code such that we
> remove the reference to log4cpp and build the library? What would u
> suggest. This is the question raised by our legal department to check
> for the possibility & feasibility.

I don't understand the reasoning behind worrying about an LGPL library
unless you plan to make changes to it, and even if you did, it's not nice to
go fixing open source libraries and then not return the fixes to everybody
else.

-- Scott




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