Re: [CryptoAPI-devel] checked in my code

[Justin C. <ju...@po...>]

Hi all,

How about this as a start... 

The project decides which license it's going to "officially" support,
and states up front that all patches to this code which people donate
are going to be covered by that same license.  This was if people don't
want their patches under that licese, don't post the patches.

But, which license?

I think we should be careful here too. Chosing BSD means the GPL people
will generally kick up a stink, and choosing GPL can mean the
company-friendly people will kick up a stink, etc.

Sometime the licensing argument can get so bad that people will actually
leave projects, etc.  :(

My vote is to keep the code the same as the Linux kernel, as that's
where we want it included anyway.

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift


Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 20:58, David Bryson wrote:
> > eek these were both my suggestion to kyle, my bad.
> np, it's cvs... everything can be reverted... :-)
> 
> > > 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...
> > is this in regards to "declaring" all of the module licenses GPL ?  In
> > which case should we be trying to hunt down all the original maintainers
> > of the code and asking them if we can GPL it ?
> 
> some are X11-style licenses (i.e. the api itself by alex et al. is
> declared such iirc)
> some are GPL'ed (the cryptoloop module I (re)wrote) or the twofish
> implementation taken from the gpg project...
> 
> some are BSDish... and some others are public domain..
> 
> btw, do we really need everything to be GPLed? i.e. the patented algos
> might not be gpl'able... but I'm not sure right now...
> 
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