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Re: Sun donates elliptic curve code to OpenSSL?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Noriyuki Soda)
Tue Sep 24 11:12:13 2002

Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 22:57:42 +0900 (JST)
From: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Cc: soda@sra.co.jp

Greg Broile wrote:
> in the OpenSSL library, provided that the people who don't want to be
> sued comply with a list of conditions:
	:
> (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.

I think this (2) is misunderstanding, or may lead misunderstand.

For example, i) of 3) describes that modifed part of the code
(i.e. modified since Sun's contribution) is not subject of the
covenant. But licensee who modifies Sun's code can covenant to Sun
about the unmodified part of the code.
--
soda

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