It's considered a Fedora project. Fedora is where we will take contributions and build a community around the code.
Red Hat has a supported version of the the Directory Server called "Red Hat Directory Server." Separate information about that product can be found on Red Hat's web site.
We chose to use a GPL+Exception license for a few very specific reason:
1. We wanted something that was GPL-compatible.
2. We wanted people to be able to ship it with non-free software.
Directory Server has been shipped for a long time as the backend for lots of other apps, like all the old Netscape Suite apps like mail server. We thought this was a valuable form of delivery and wanted people to be able to continue to do this.
3. We wanted people to be able to build plugins for the Directory Server under non-free licenses.
We thought that the ability to build plugins with any software was an important right to grant.
4. We wanted to make sure the core of the Directory Server was maintained as free software.
This was the most important goal. If someone extends some piece of core functionality in the Directory Server they need to give it back to the community. We didn't want forks that included proprietary software right in the core of the directory server.
I downloaded the Opera binary to give it a run. I was impressed by how small it was and how small of a footprint it has while it is running. However, it's important to remember that with Mozilla you can create a small web browser as well. Everything is embeddable so you can create whatever interface ( with whatever size ) you want. Everything is modular so if you don't want it, you don't have to load it. Here is a screenshot of the "simplebrowser" test program. It's simple. It's small. The nice thing about Mozilla is that you can design any interface you want around it since it's completely embeddable. You like the Opera interface with MDI? Write one! There's nothing stopping you.
I also found it interesting that they called this a "beta release." Mozilla is more stable and has a greater amount of its final functionality impelemented than the current Opera release. We didn't want to call the Mozilla M12 release "Alpha" because we weren't comfortable enough with its level of stability (although we consider it almost there.) Yet another example of the redefinition of the word "Beta.":)
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It's considered a Fedora project. Fedora is where we will take contributions and build a community around the code.
Red Hat has a supported version of the the Directory Server called "Red Hat Directory Server." Separate information about that product can be found on Red Hat's web site.
It's not encumbered. It's just a question of time.
We've got a set of admin tools there (as mentioned elsewhere in this thread.) We intend to open source them, we just haven't gotten that far yet.
If you want to see them download the binaries from the web site. They are included with the rpm, just not with source yet.
We chose to use a GPL+Exception license for a few very specific reason:
1. We wanted something that was GPL-compatible.
2. We wanted people to be able to ship it with non-free software.
Directory Server has been shipped for a long time as the backend for lots of other apps, like all the old Netscape Suite apps like mail server. We thought this was a valuable form of delivery and wanted people to be able to continue to do this.
3. We wanted people to be able to build plugins for the Directory Server under non-free licenses.
We thought that the ability to build plugins with any software was an important right to grant.
4. We wanted to make sure the core of the Directory Server was maintained as free software.
This was the most important goal. If someone extends some piece of core functionality in the Directory Server they need to give it back to the community. We didn't want forks that included proprietary software right in the core of the directory server.
Ahh, sorry then.
I downloaded the Opera binary to give it a run. I was impressed by how small it was and how small of a footprint it has while it is running. However, it's important to remember that with Mozilla you can create a small web browser as well. Everything is embeddable so you can create whatever interface ( with whatever size ) you want. Everything is modular so if you don't want it, you don't have to load it. Here is a screenshot of the "simplebrowser" test program. It's simple. It's small. The nice thing about Mozilla is that you can design any interface you want around it since it's completely embeddable. You like the Opera interface with MDI? Write one! There's nothing stopping you.
:)
I also found it interesting that they called this a "beta release." Mozilla is more stable and has a greater amount of its final functionality impelemented than the current Opera release. We didn't want to call the Mozilla M12 release "Alpha" because we weren't comfortable enough with its level of stability (although we consider it almost there.) Yet another example of the redefinition of the word "Beta."