OpenSAML user discussion

["Girish Sundarraj" <>]

Hi Scott,

Thanks. I shall take it up from here. 

Regards,
Girish 

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Cantor 
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Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 8:40 PM
To: Girish Sundarraj
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Subject: RE: Excluding log4cpp

> 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