OpenSAML user discussion

["Scott Cantor" <>]

> FWIW, while the ASF has seemingly agonized a lot over the LGPL, my
> impression from my reading is that the context of that is *distribution*,
> not use.

To correct my own misinformation, while I don't think there's an official
policy on this, the ASF in general treats the LGPL as a presumed-banned
license for dependencies required by an ASF project because of the section 6
requirements it places on the combined work that don't exist in the Apache
license.

This is not directly relevant to OpenSAML since this isn't an Apache
project, but it relates to the question at hand.

At the end of the day, it's easy to be dogmatic until you need to log
something and your choices are pretty freaking limited. I'm willing to work
towards a solution, but Shibboleth 2.0 has to get out the door, and this
isn't gonna hold me up. If somebody wants to pitch in and help code around
the issue for now, they're welcome to.

-- Scott