[Pkg-openldap-devel] Re: the .org proposal or "join forces"

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:01:38PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Matthijs Mohlmann <matthijs at cacholong.nl> writes:
> > Russ Allbery wrote:

> >> Upstream is working on official support for GnuTLS, which should make
> >> the last point much easier when complete.  I'm not sure what their
> >> timeframe is, though.

> > That makes the last point easy yes, can you ask the upstream developers
> > in what timeframe they think it's finished ?

> Alas, I checked with them and apparently the funding for this work fell
> through.

> Steve, it looks like your submitted patch for GnuTLS support was rejected
> by the OpenLDAP developers for reasons unrelated to its technical merits
> (some sort of problem with how it was submitted, and questions about
> licensing).  Did they ever send you mail about it, as you requested in
> your message, or did it just get closed in the ITS without further
> discussion?  I'm not sure if all of the history is reflected in the ITS.

I don't think I ever got any mail from upstream about it; I did chat with
Stephen Frost about trying to move this forward under a license that's
acceptable to upstream, but in the meantime the patch has bitrotted and
needs to be redone.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon at debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/
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