[JDEV] Peter Gutmann's response

[Thomas Charron]

	Like I said before, we can distribute both in the same package. Anything in
the cryptolib would be one licence, everything else another.  We'd need some
sort of option to NOT use cryptolib to allow people who agree with the GPL
but not his not to use it..  (Ok, it'd be silly, and I'd LOVE to see the
reasoning for it, but it should be taken into consideration.  Who knows,
maybee RMS would want to reject using it for ego reasons..<shrug>)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-jdev at jabber.org On Behalf Of Corbett J. Klempay
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 9:40 PM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: [JDEV] Peter Gutmann's response
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:28:30 (NZST)
> From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz>
> To: cklempay at chimera.acm.jhu.edu
> Subject: Re: cryptlib license question...
>
> Hi,
>
> >I am working on adding digital signature support to an
> in-development instant
> >messaging program called Jabber (www.jabber.org). I'm actually
> doing this as a
> >project for my crypto class right now...you can see the brief
> proposal for it
> >at
> http://www.acm.jhu.edu/> ~cklempay/mod_digsig/cryptoproposal.html Anyway,
I
> >was getting frustrated the other when I was working on it, as I
> was having to
> >develop a bunch of the utility code (a PRNG, prime number
> generation, etc).  I
> >went looking for good PRNG code, and came across cryptlib...wow.
>  It's extra
> >cool because of some of the key management (like eventually we
> were going to
> >have to add code to our Jabber servers to store persistent user
> info (like
> >keys) in an RDBMS).  The thing I was realizing this morning,
> though: if I were
> >to use cryptlib to implement these things, it would prevent us from
> >distributing Jabber under the GPL, correct?
>
> Well, you couldn't distribute the cryptlib code under the GPL
> because cryptlib
> is currently available under a license which is less restrictive
> than the GPL,
> and I don't really want to have it infected by the GPL (that is,
> I don't want
> to have cryptlib fall under the GPL).  However there's nothing to
> stop you from
> distributing Jabber under the GPL and cryptlib as is, for all intents and
> purposes it'll be the same thing (it's free for pretty much
> anyone to use).
>
> Peter.
>
>