[Discuss] OSS licenses (was Home NAS redux)

Rich Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 21:01:15 EST 2013


On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:52:42 -0600
Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> wrote:

> I've pointed out several times in this thread that it's unlikely that
> using GPL for Kerberos would have made any difference [snip]

It wouldn't, because Microsoft did in fact write their own proprietary
implementation of the Kerberos v5 protocol. There is no MIT code in
Active Directory. You can read more about it in the MIT Kerberos FAQ.

-- 
Rich P.



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