Richard Fontana wrote: > The precise question here seems to be whether the server operator can > be said to be "prominently offer[ing]" the opportunity to receive the > source code in this sort of case (the hypothetical where existing LDAP > clients cannot recognize the extension). To the extent that's an OSD > 10 issue, I guess it would be because in the context of particular > technology standards, it may be impossible to "prominently offer" in > any meaningful sense. But that goes back to the issue of whether > "technology" in OSD 10 includes any specifically defined technology > standard.
Expanding on this - I know of no technology standard that allows a low level client library to prominently display anything to an end user, particularly if that library is buried under multiple layers of other libraries. E.g., while LDAP software is commonly used for end-user authentication, it is seldom used directly - it is most often used under PAM/NSS or SASL or any of a variety of other intermediate security/authentication APIs. None of which provide any particular mechanism to route low-level informational messages to the end user. But imagine that such a mechanism existed. Then every time a system contacted the LDAP server for authentication information, this "prominent offer" would be transmitted over the network and displayed on the user's screen. This would be happening not only every time the user logged in, but also every time they even listed the files in a directory, or listed the active users on the machine or any of a variety of routine system operations. Because every time the OS wanted to map a list of numeric userIDs to textual user names could be invoking a new LDAP session. There's also ambiguity in the notion of remote user. The LDAP server might be being contacted through a proxy/caching process (such as nscd, sssd, nssov, etc.) in which case the entity that connects to the server is a machine account, and far removed from any actual end users. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
