Re: [CryptoAPI-devel] checked in my code

[Kyle M. <ky...@de...>]

fwd of private message to hvr.

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:14:44PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:42:57PM +0100, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> > 1.) the kbuild patch should neither add a kernel suffix (I was tented
> > myself long time ago; but this 1. would require to have such a patch for
> > _every_ kernel version out there... and 2ndly it will break peoples
> > custom kernels... so don't do it :-)
> > 2.) the kbuild patch, as the name already says, should touch _only_
> > makefiles and other build-related control files... so the loop.c patch
> > doesn't belong in there for at least one reason; the other reason is,
> > that people may prefer the loop-jari patch, and this would conflcit; so
> > don't do this either..
> >
> sorry, i should have mentioned in the changelog that these were just
> temporary until i could put together some other framework for adding
> miscellenous crypto patches to the api. i'll revert it until i can do
> that. 
> 
> > 3.) we can't claim something changed to be GPL'ed, if we don't have the
> > copyright to do so... this could bring us into major legal problems...
> > 
> oh shhhhblah. i assumed all the code was taken from the public domain. i
> will fix this right away. would it be alright if i added a Makefile
> target to build only ciphers which can be gpl-licensed?
> 
> -- 
> copyleft (c) 2002, Kyle McMartin

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copyleft (c) 2002, Kyle McMartin