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Re: Sun donates elliptic curve code to OpenSSL?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Mon Sep 23 10:26:32 2002
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:04:09 +1200 (NZST)
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com, gbroiles@parrhesia.com,
pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
Greg Broiles <gbroiles@parrhesia.com> writes:
>Sun is promising not to sue people for patent infringement for using Sun's
>code as provided in the OpenSSL library, provided that the people who don't
>want to be sued comply with a list of conditions:
>
>(1) they promise not to sue Sun for infringing any of their own patents which
>might cover the use of the donated code
>
>(2) don't modify Sun's code as provided by Sun, don't use only parts of the
>donated code, and don't remove the license text from the code.
Doesn't this exclude it from being used in OpenSSL, since it violates the
license?
* The licence and distribution terms for any publically available version or
* derivative of this code cannot be changed. i.e. this code cannot simply be
* copied and put under another distribution licence
* [including the GNU Public Licence.]
Peter.
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