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OpenLDAP Software is a free, open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) developed by the OpenLDAP Project. It is released under its own license called the OpenLDAP Public License. LDAP is a platform-independent protocol. Several common Linux distributions include OpenLDAP Software for LDAP support. The software also runs on BSD-variants, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS X, Solaris, Microsoft Windows (2000, XP) and z/OS.
Project History and Core Team The OpenLDAP Project was started in 1998 by Kurt Zeilenga. The project started by cloning the LDAP reference source from the University Of Michigan where a long-running project had supported development and evolution of the LDAP protocol. As of April, 2006, the OpenLDAP Project has three Core Team members: Kurt Zeilenga, Howard Chu, and Pierangelo Masarati. There are numerous other important and active contributors including Luke Howard, Hallvard Furuseth and Marc Boorshtein. Components of OpenLDAP Software OpenLDAP Software has four main components: Release Summary The major (functional) releases of OpenLDAP Software include: Numerous of the experimental backends and overlays have become production quality by the current release (2.3). The monitor backend is one of the most important of those experimentals. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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