[PATCH 1/5] PowerPC optimized routines for AES and SHA2 using PowerISA

[Werner Koch]

Hi!

On Tue,  9 Jul 2019 09:58, shawn at git.icu said:

> From CRYPTOGAMS https://www.openssl.org/~appro/cryptogams/

I had a quick look at the license and I can't see that this license
allows the inclusuon int Libcgrypt which is available under the GNU
LGPL.

  Copyright (c) 2006-2017, CRYPTOGAMS by <appro at openssl.org>
  All rights reserved.

The copyright line does not seem to identify a holder of the copyright.
Weel, unless "CRYPTOGAMS by <appro at openssl.org>" is a legal entity.

  Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
  met:

  * Redistributions of source code must retain copyright notices, this
    list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

  * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

  * Neither the name of the CRYPTOGAMS nor the names of its copyright
    holder and contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
    derived from this software without specific prior written
    permission.

This looks like a standard BSD licese but I didn't checked it.

  ALTERNATIVELY, provided that this notice is retained in full, this
  product may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
  License (GPL), in which case the provisions of the GPL apply INSTEAD
  OF those given above.

Problems with this: It allows only GNU GPL, does not provide a version
of it, and seems to be invalidating itself because it adds a further
restriction to the GPL, namely that "this notice is retained in full".
Anyway GPL is too restrictive for Libgcrypt.

Whether we can exceptionally add BSD code needs to be discussed but has
the very practical problem that all users of Libcgrypt need to update all
their documentation to include the required statements and copyright
notices for the BSD license.

I am sorry for these bad news and I hope a solution can be found.
Either by removing all OpenSSL code or by asking the original author to
change to a better usable and more standard license.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner


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