Bug 488556

Summary:	RFE: Consolidate Cyrus SASL Users to GNU SASL
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Daniel Qarras <dqarras>
Component:	cyrus-sasl	Assignee:	Jan F. Chadima <jchadima>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Daniel Qarras 2009-03-04 20:23:16 UTC

Description of problem:
Cyrus SASL comes with non-standard, awkward-to-fulfill license. GNU SASL comes with standard LGPL/GPL licenses and provides equal feature set. GNU SASL become version 1.0 recently [1].

Please consider consolidating Cyrus SASL users to GNU SASL.

1) http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gsasl/2009-01/msg00003.html

Comment 1 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2009-05-04 08:26:56 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 2 Daniel Qarras 2009-09-06 13:16:27 UTC

So, any comments on this one? Thanks.

Comment 3 Jan F. Chadima 2009-09-07 11:33:56 UTC

Switching the security package is not a choice nor a license picking. Such a task has to be performed carefully and with thorough testing. I'll look at it in F13 devel phase.

Comment 4 Jan F. Chadima 2009-10-09 20:01:57 UTC

The GNU SASL (now in the version 1.2) does not fully substitute the Cyrus SASL.
There are still missing some necessary functionality like pam support, support for Unix passwd/shadow and more. If you really rely on that package, pack it into fedora.