[Fwd: OpenLDAP Licence v.2.6]

[samba-technical at thewrittenword.com]

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 at 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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> 
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> Simo Sorce
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