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[William Grant <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 15:25 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> On 10/09/10 00:37, Martin Pool wrote:
> > On 10 September 2010 03:13, Elliot Murphy <elliot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> The closed source provider was thrown in the trash and replaced with a
> >> much better AGPL version. If you notice the footer of login.ubuntu.com
> >> and login.launchpad.net you will see they both mention being AGPL and
> >> have links to the source code, which is here:
> >> https://launchpad.net/canonical-identity-provider/
> >>
> >> I don't think there are any missing components. Have fun, let us know
> >> how it goes!
> > 
> > That's great, and news to me.  Just a little while ago someone was
> > complaining the source was not published.
> 
> It's not, however, very well published. There's sourcecode there, but
> it's in no way ready to run straight out of the branch. You have to pore
> over it, realize that the "schemaconfig" thing is still closed source,
> find the alternative manage.py elsewhere in the tree, compose your own
> configuration from scratch, find that the metapackage which is the ISD
> equivalent to launchpad-developer-dependencies is also closed source, ....
> 
> I've yet to make it run.

Although it took a lot of trial and error, I managed to get it running
just after it was released. However, a README was added a while later,
which seems to make it more doable. Have you tried the method described
there? It doesn't require private stuff, AFAICT.