Fedora Directory Server Now Available to the Open Source Community

The Fedora Project, a Red Hat-sponsored and community-supported, open source collaboration project, today announced at the Red Hat Summit the availability of Fedora Directory Server. By making Fedora Directory Server freely available to the open source development community, Red Hat is enabling and encouraging the development of secure, enterprise technologies and providing customers and partners with increased choice. The availability of Fedora Directory Server licensed under the GPL underscores Red Hat’s true commitment to open source innovation.

Fedora Directory Server is based on components of the technology assets Red Hat acquired from the Netscape Security Solutions division of America Online in September of 2004. Since that time Red Hat has been working to license the core components of the Directory Server code under the GPL and make them available for ongoing open source development. Remaining components will be made open source in the coming months, but are being offered as freely-redistributable technologies today as part of the Fedora Directory Server Project.

“The free availability of Fedora Directory Server marks an important milestone for open source identity management,” said Karen Tegan Padir, vice president of Engineering, Infrastructure Technologies at Red Hat. “There is now a standards-based, open source solution available in a market that has been historically dominated by high-cost proprietary options. Red Hat is looking forward to working with the extended community involved with the Fedora Project to bring this technology forward and create a highly secure and innovative technology which meets the demands of increasingly complex infrastructures.”

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