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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!startide.ctr.columbia.edu!wpaul From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NDS for FreeBSD Date: 13 Dec 1996 17:33:08 GMT Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 35 Message-ID: <58s40k$9om@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <32B08176.41C67EA6@cube.nanoteq.co.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: startide.ctr.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32523 Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Roelof W Temmingh (roelof@cube.nanoteq.co.za) had the courage to say: : There has been some talk that Novell is giving away the source code for : NDS. (Novell Directory Services). Apparently it is already ported to : Solaris?? : Does anyone know where I can obtain the source code, or does anyone know : if it is planned to port NDS to FreeBSD? : Greetings from South Africa, : Roelof Temmingh I'd be more interested in just seeing the protocol specs myself. Just because Novell says they're licensing the source to OS vendors free of charge, that doesn't necessarily imply that they'll let said vendors distribute the source to other people as well. 'Free of charge' is not the same as 'free without any non-disclosure agreements attached.' With FreeBSD, we give you the source for the entire OS; if we had NDS support, we'd give you source that too. I for one would not be satisfied with anything less. But if the licensing terms don't permit that, then we can't use their code. Also, even if Novell did just drop the code in our laps, somebody has to find time to work on it. My dance card is already full. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "If you're ever in trouble, go to the CTR. Ask for Bill. He will help you." =============================================================================