Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:01:41PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Shishi can co-exist with either of MIT or Heimdal. It doesn't use a >> similar API at all. The library has a clean name space (shishi_*). >> The tools doesn't conflict with any (to me) known tools. > >> I don't think the GSSAPI dev package would conflict; it places header >> files in $prefix/include/gss/ and the library is called libgss to >> avoid conflicting. However, as it implement the standard GSS API, the >> namespace do conflict, so you can't link directly to more than one >> GSS-library at the same time. > > Please add support for ELF symbol versioning, so that the usual > namespace problems can be avoided.
I have added support for it in CVS. > I notice from > <http://josefsson.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/shishi/README?rev=1.30&view=markup> > that this lib is distributed under the terms of the GPL only, so I have > my doubts that it's particularly useful for Debian to adopt it. Is > there any particular reason that GNU shishi is not made available under > the LGPL? Some reasons are given in [1]. I don't quite follow. Is there a problem with GPL'd software in Debian? [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html Thanks, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
