[Beowulf] Re: Linux cluster authenticating against multiple Active Directory domains

Chris Samuel csamuel at vpac.org
Thu Jul 31 22:39:35 PDT 2008


----- "Dave Love" <d.love at liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:

> Geoff Jacobs <gdjacobs at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Apparently it's GPL, so legal compatibility shouldn't
> be an issue.
> 
> That's actually an odd choice for (presumably) PAM and
> NSS modules which you expect to be dynamically linked
> into programs with non-GPL-compatible licences.

I dunno, you can hardly say that a program that
uses PAM is a derivative work of a GPL'd module
when it will work perfectly well with any old
module.

Of course a BSD licensed one would be ideal, but
not in their businesses interest I suspect. :-)

cheers,
Chris
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