1GNU SASL LIBRARY README -- Important introductory notes. 2Copyright (C) 2002-2021 Simon Josefsson 3See the end for copying conditions. 4 5The GNU SASL Library is a library that implements the Simple 6Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) framework and some plugins. 7 8The GNU SASL Library is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public 9License (LGPL) version 2.1 (or later). See the file COPYING.LIB. The 10GNU project typically uses the GNU General Public License (GPL) for 11libraries, and not the LGPL, but for this project we decided that we 12would get more help from the community if we used the LGPLv2.1+, as 13other free SASL implementations exists. See also 14<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html>. 15 16Some parts, such as the gnulib self-tests (gltests/) are licensed 17under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3.0 (or later). 18See the file COPYING. 19 20The manual is not included in this directory, see the full GNU SASL 21archive. 22 23If you need help to use GNU SASL, or wish to help others, you are 24invited to join our mailing list help-gsasl@gnu.org, see 25<https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsasl>. 26 27Currently there is some support for the following mechanisms: 28 29 - CRAM-MD5 (RFC 2195) 30 - EXTERNAL (RFC 2222) 31 - GSSAPI (RFC 2222, requires GSS, Heimdal or MIT Kerberos) 32 - ANONYMOUS (RFC 2245) 33 - PLAIN (RFC 2595) 34 - SECURID (RFC 2808) 35 - DIGEST-MD5 (RFC 2831) 36 - SCRAM-SHA-1 and SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS (RFC 5802) 37 - SCRAM-SHA-256 and SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS (RFC 7677) 38 - GS2-KRB5 (RFC 5801, no CB, requires GSS, Heimdal, or MIT Kerberos) 39 - SAML20 (RFC 6595) 40 - OPENID20 (RFC 6616) 41 - LOGIN (non-standard) 42 - NTLM (non-standard, client only, requires Libntlm) 43 - KERBEROS_V5 (experimental, requires Shishi) 44 45The library should be portable to all C89 platforms. 46 47For updates to the project, see <http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/>. 48 49For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package 50note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval. 51 52---------------------------------------------------------------------- 53Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, 54are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright 55notice and this notice are preserved. 56