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Re: no surprise - Sun fails to open source the crypto part of Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicolas Williams)
Sat May 12 17:05:33 2007
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 13:58:44 -0500
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
To: Ian G <iang@systemics.com>
Cc: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <464480E7.4040206@systemics.com>
> Subject: Re: no surprise - Sun fails to open source the crypto part of Java
Were you not surprised because you knew that said source is encumbered,
or because you think Sun has some nefarious motive to not open source
that code?
If the latter then keep in mind that you can find plenty of crypto code
in OpenSolaris, which, unless you think the CDDL does not qualify as
open source, is open source. I've no first hand knowledge, but I
suspect that the news story you quoted from is correct: the code is
encumbered and Sun couldn't get the copyright holders to permit release
under the GPL in time for the release of Java source under the GPL.
Nico
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