Fedora Directory Server 1.0 released (Yeah!)

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 11:45 -0700, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> Please, correct me anytime, I make just as many mistakes as the next guy, I just hide it better ;}
> 
> I based the console requirement for Apache on a quick read of Fedora's instructions.  I may have been mistaken there, and I thank you for the correction.
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no - it definitely wants to know the path to apache binary at install
time. I don't know what it actually uses from apache. I don't run apache
on my workstation and have left it off to see where/when it is required.

I should have also pointed out that the ssl function is apparently
derived from mozilla and not from apache
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> I know that the Netscape DS forked.  While the timeline for the former Netscape DS in the RedHat quote is mostly correct, Sun actually bought the rights to the original code (it's in the iPlanet contracts), while AOL retained rights to create derivative works from the codebase prior to the formation of iPlanet (and IIRC the first "improvement" they made on their fork after iPlanet expired was to apply a patch set containing all of the iPlanet changes, which AOL also had rights to).
> The RedHat admin tool is a separate item, and, IIRC, is a combination of AOL code (Netscape was just the AOL business unit) and code from an earlier RedHat project to provide administration for OpenLDAP, which remained the target until relatively recently.
> RedHat's version of history also ignores the fact that Sun put a large amount of work into their version of DS after the fork as well.  I'm not saying that either is better than the other, only that both improved after they parted ways.
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history is always written by the winners ;-)

OK - I agree that Red Hat spin on the story doesn't entirely clarify. I
am not knowledgeable about all of these things - in fact, I didn't
realize how sophisticated their LDAP implementation was but am getting
the picture as I go along
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> The last item was intended to note that there are other open source DS projects, including the corporate-friendly Apache, and the widespread OpenLDAP.  There's also talk that Sun may open their DS (although if they use CDDL it won't help much) and Novell may open eDirectory (probably GPL), both of which would be excellent contributions to the Open Source ecosystem.
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just goes to show what I don't know...I didn't know that Apache had a DS
product.

Craig