[PATCH] spnego_auth (attachment)

[Simo Sorce]

On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 09:52, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 05:29:57PM +0000, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > The CMU license is identical to a 4 clause BSD license which
> > is incompatible with the GPL I'm afraid. Can you re-write that
> > file (it's very short) ?
> 
> That's the reason why there's a pipe and a separate program. I thought that
> this would be enough separation. Or is passing SPNEGO blobs over a pipe
> considered linking? I'm really not sure, but if this is the case then it
> would probably be virtually impossible to do this, we would have to
> rewrite OpenLDAP and SASL.

It depends on a case by case basis, passing entire structures between
programs may be considered linking, but as these are wellknown and
defined structures that are also sent over netwrok (right?), I think
they may be simply considered part of an interface, but we are
borderline here imho.

Simo.

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