[freetds] Windows authentication on Windows

James K. Lowden jklowden at freetds.org
Mon Feb 1 22:18:16 EST 2010


Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> I noted you committed a patch for getopt support under systems
> which don't have getopt however getopt.c is currently under a BSD
> license which is not LGPL compatible leading to licenses problems (for
> instance tsql using such file should output some additional comments
> aboud BSD code). 

You mean this:

 * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
 *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
 *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

I think all we need to do is add those things to the UG.  Not hard, and
lets us use other parts of NetBSD, too, if we want to.  

I'll do that in time for the release.  

> I updated docuementation a bit. Usually the base requirement is to
> configure a /etc/krb5.conf file and initialize a ticket with kinit.

Thanks.  

Regards, 

--jkl



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