Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-09-02 Thread Simon Josefsson
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The software area in which you're writing code is fairly mature and even > standardized. Pretty much everything that does SASL uses Cyrus SASL. It is not even that good, plenty of applications implement their own SASL code. A quick ldd $bin|grep sasl s

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-09-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, when I re-licensed GNU SASL from GPL to LGPL, after similar > requests, it didn't bring me any benefits. People who said they would > use and contribute to the project if it was LGPL never showed up after > the license changed. Further, all

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-09-01 Thread Simon Josefsson
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> other), the addition of licensing problems means that there's basically no >>> motivation for anyone to try to use shishi. >> >> One motivation would be to get the unique features that Shishi has that >> the other Kerberos implementation has. E.g., non

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see, right. I note that a similar problem already exist, because > Heimdal links with OpenSSL. So it appears that code licensed under GPL > could not link with Heimdal. (A rdepend suggest e.g. lsh-server contain > GPL code that link with OpenSSL t

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-31 Thread Simon Josefsson
"Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:01:41PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Shishi can co-exist with either of MIT or Heimdal. It doesn't use a >> similar API at all. The library has a clean name space (shishi_*). >> The tools doesn't conflict with an

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-31 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:01:41PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Shishi can co-exist with either of MIT or Heimdal. It doesn't use a > similar API at all. The library has a clean name space (shishi_*). > The tools doesn't conflict with any (to me) known tools. But I take it that it can still u

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-31 Thread Simon Josefsson
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> I notice from >>> >>> that this lib is distributed under the terms of the GPL onl

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-31 Thread Simon Josefsson
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:01:41PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Shishi can co-exist with either of MIT or Heimdal. It doesn't use a >> similar API at all. The library has a clean name space (shishi_*). >> The tools doesn't conflict with any (to me

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I notice from >> >> that this lib is distributed under the terms of the GPL only, so I have >> my doubts that it's particularly

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:01:41PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Shishi can co-exist with either of MIT or Heimdal. It doesn't use a > similar API at all. The library has a clean name space (shishi_*). > The tools doesn't conflict with any (to me) known tools. > I don't think the GSSAPI dev pa

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-30 Thread Simon Josefsson
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Having you as a co-maintainer would be great. > >> I expect the initial packaging to be simple, it is just a './configure >> && make install' package. Part of the 'make install' procedure should >> be dupl

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-30 Thread Simon Josefsson
"J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:32:58AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> I expect the initial packaging to be simple, it is just a './configure >> && make install' package. Part of the 'make install' procedure should >> be duplicated in the apt install s

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
J Bruce Fields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you looked at the libgssapi package at > http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/ ? > Currently we're just using this for the NFS rpcsec_gss implementation, > but we split it out into a separate library thinking it might be used as > you de

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Having you as a co-maintainer would be great. > I expect the initial packaging to be simple, it is just a './configure > && make install' package. Part of the 'make install' procedure should > be duplicated in the apt install scripts, for the KDC sid

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-30 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:32:58AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > I expect the initial packaging to be simple, it is just a './configure > && make install' package. Part of the 'make install' procedure should > be duplicated in the apt install scripts, for the KDC side, but that > part is not imp

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-30 Thread Simon Josefsson
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hi. I'd like to get in contact with someone who would be interested in >> creating and supporting Debian packages for my Kerberos 5 >> implementation, and its related GSS-API library. Web pages are >> ava

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. I'd like to get in contact with someone who would be interested in > creating and supporting Debian packages for my Kerberos 5 > implementation, and its related GSS-API library. Web pages are > available at: > http://www.gnu.org/software/shishi/

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-29 Thread Simon Josefsson
"Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 03:43:43PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> One advantage with my Kerberos 5 implementation compared to >> MIT/Heimdal is that it support Kerberos 5 over TLS, which means that >> you can use X.509 or (work in progress) Op

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-29 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 03:43:43PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > One advantage with my Kerberos 5 implementation compared to > MIT/Heimdal is that it support Kerberos 5 over TLS, which means that > you can use X.509 or (work in progress) OpenPGP keys, rather than > passwords to get a Kerberos tic

Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-29 Thread Simon Josefsson
Hi. I'd like to get in contact with someone who would be interested in creating and supporting Debian packages for my Kerberos 5 implementation, and its related GSS-API library. Web pages are available at: http://www.gnu.org/software/shishi/ http://www.gnu.org/software/gss/ Shishi and GSS can b