Shibboleth Developers

["RL 'Bob' Morgan" <>]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Scott Cantor wrote:

> >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?

What I meant was "clearly *our* apache-style license would fit that
definition", hence writing to the bdb API and having that code in the shib
package would be fine (as openldap does).

Derek reminds me that he really wanted to use mysql, which is gpl'd,
though ...

 - RL "Bob"

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