[Pkg-openldap-devel] OpenLDAP 2.3.20 "stable" (fwd)

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:54 PM -0800 Steve Langasek 
<vorlon at debian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 01:24:53PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Matthijs Mohlmann <matthijs at cacholong.nl> writes:
>
>> > Thanks, this is also the version we have currently in svn ?
>
>> And to mention, so that people know that things are still moving forward
>> with this, we're still working on getting funding for the GnuTLS work.
>> I'm going to be bringing that up with one of our Executive Directors here
>> at Stanford in about six minutes.
>
> FWIW, I've just been approached by someone at Canonical about getting the
> libldap2 patch ported forward to gnutls12, so they can drop gnutls11 for
> dapper.  If my brain's going to be in ldap-gnutls mode anyway, I might as
> well put some effort into the fix-up for openldap 2.3 as well; it might
> even be that Canonical is willing to co-fund such work, though I haven't
> asked them.
>
> Also, for the record, I did give Stephen Frost permission to distribute
> the current patch under the OpenLDAP license after upstream rejected it
> for licensing reasons, but I'm not sure this ever got communicated to them
> because ITS gives me hives.

It definitely didn't, from my discussions with Kurt.

A 3-way split on funding? hm. ;)

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Stanford University
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