We are in the process of converting the license terms for the LDAP C SDK from NPL to a choice of MPL/GPL. Included in this message you will see the verbage which was sent to past contributors of the LDAP C SDK in order for us to make this change. In a couple of cases where folks have disagreed with the new license terms, I have made a case by case decision whether these change were carried over into the 5.x version. Several contributions were dropped when I rewrote the make system and was finally able to push all of our internal code. I hope to be able to make the change over shortly. Michael ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Contributor, Thank you for your contributions to the Netscape Directory SDK for C (CSDK) Netscape is planning to make the CSDK available for use under a dual license: either the GNU Public License (GPL) or the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Netscape will relinquish rights defined under the Netscape Public License (NPL) with relicensing under terms of the MPL to allow wider use of all of the CSDK. We believe this license change also adds momentum to the open source initiative. We need your help to make this happen. mozilla.org requests permission to include your contributions to the CSDK in versions of the CSDK made available for use under the GPL. If this is acceptable to you, please reply to this email and include the following in your reply: "I agree to allow my contributions to the CSDK to be made available under the dual license." If you have the capability to digitally sign your response, we'd appreciate it if you would do so. We plan to implement this dual-licensing proposal by adding language to a revised version of the Mozilla Public License and to the text file included with the MPL source code. Examples of the text that will be included in CSDK files can be viewed at http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/boilerplate-1.1 The MPL may be viewed at http://www.mozilla.org/MPL The GNU General Public License may be viewed at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html If you do not wish your contributions to be included in GPL versions, we would appreciate your letting us know so that we can remove your contributions before we make code available under the GPL. Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Michael Hein, Software Engineer, iPlanet A Sun | Netscape Alliance
