Shibboleth Developers

[Scott Cantor <>]

>Their terms are not GPL, per se.  They say if you write and redistribute,
>you have to make source available under reasonable terms; and clearly an
>Apache/openldap-style license fits that definition.  So I don't think
>there's any problem for us to use bdb.

That's not the Apache license, it's much closer to GPL. I thought the issue 
was, if we include this code, does that mean that a
commercial vendor can't use the code in their product w/o having to open 
source that product?

With Apache-style, there's no requirement to do so, but with GPL or this 
license, there is.

Now, the complexity is in what constitutes "using the code in our program". 
With GPL, there's been some thought on that issue, and
if the conclusions for the BDB are the same, then we're in ok shape. We can 
distribute a plugin, and the plugin is viral, but not
the shib code.

-- Scott

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