* [devel] [samba-technical@thewrittenword.com: Re: [Fwd: OpenLDAP Licence v.2.6]]
@ 2001-09-18 15:51 Alexander Bokovoy
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From: Alexander Bokovoy @ 2001-09-18 15:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:19:09 -0500
From: samba-technical@thewrittenword.com
To: Simo Sorce <simo.sorce@tiscalinet.it>
Cc: samba-technical@samba.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: OpenLDAP Licence v.2.6]
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:54:53AM +0200, Simo Sorce wrote:
> This is what FSF think of OpenLDAP v2.6
> It is near to be ok!
FYI, the latest OpenLDAP license, 2.7, is now compatible with the GPL.
This applies to OpenLDAP 2.0.14.
> Simo.
>
> Free Software Foundation wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 08:27:12PM +0200, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On the fsf web site, in the icense list OpenLDAP Licence v 2.3 is marked as NOT
> > > > compatible with GPL.
> > > >
> > > > The last release of OpenLDAP License is 2.6 and it is a bit different from 2.3
> > > > Do anyone know if this new version is still incompatible with GPL or not?
> > >
> > > Don't know without checking.
> > > licensing@gnu.org is the right place to ask so that the page can be updated.
> > > (cc pointing to it).
> >
> > It's better, but section 4 still needs some work:
> >
> > 4. The names and trademarks of the authors and copyright holders
> > must not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale,
> > use or other dealing in this Software without specific, written
> > prior permission.
> >
> > Compare to the modified BSD license (which is compatible):
> >
> > 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote
> > products derived from this software without specific prior written
> > permission.
> >
> > I'm assuming here that OpenLDAP is not a trademark. If it is, then I don't need
> > the following scenario - the problem should be obvious.
> >
> > Imagine that Linus Torvalds contributed code to OpenLDAP. Now you want
> > to say "Our program uses OpenLDAP code and runs on GNU/Linux." Since Linux is
> > a trademark of Linus Torvalds, you can't do that.
> >
> > Now, if it said "endorse or promote", that would be better, because then you
> > could reasonanbly talk about the software, so long as you didn't say, "OpenLDAP
> > thinks FooProduct is great!" (which would be false advertising and would be
> > disallowed anyway).
> >
> > As soon as I get a login on the webserver, I will update the license list to
> > cover this.
> >
> > If you know the OpenLDAP authors, and can convince them to change this, that
> > would be fabulous.
> >
> > --
> > -David "Novalis" Turner,
> > Licensing Question Volunteer,
> > Free Software Foundation
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Discussion@fsfeurope.org
> > http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussion
>
> --
> Simo Sorce
> ----------
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