Shibboleth 2.0 SP packages look ready

Russ Allbery rra at debian.org
Thu Jun 26 02:38:05 UTC 2008


I've successfully tested against TestShib using Shibboleth 2.0, so it
looks like the package stack is basically working.  I'm going to git push
the final changes and do a final build and make sure I've taken care of
the remaining lintian warnings and then upload for NEW processing.

I'll make the optimistic assumption that we'll figure out something for
the OASIS schemas.

This morning, I remembered the in-Debian precedent that I was trying to
think of in the earlier discussion.  The OpenLDAP packages include schemas
for LDAP that are extracted from IETF RFCs, which are covered under
basically the same license as the OASIS protocol specifications.  We had
to strip all the explanatory text out, but the actual schema definitions
were considered an acceptable copyright risk to include in Debian under
the DFSG.  The OASIS schemas seem like a very similar case to me.  (I make
no statement here on the legal sufficiency or correctness of Debian's
position here, just noting what Debian does in other cases.)

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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