Bug 488556 - RFE: Consolidate Cyrus SASL Users to GNU SASL
Summary: RFE: Consolidate Cyrus SASL Users to GNU SASL
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cyrus-sasl
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jan F. Chadima
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-03-04 20:23 UTC by Daniel Qarras
Modified: 2009-10-09 20:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-10-09 20:01:57 UTC
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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.
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