Libtasn1 2.1

Jeff Cai Jeff.Cai at Sun.COM
Wed Apr 29 10:29:23 CEST 2009


I found that lib/ASN1.c is licensed under GPL v3, is that correct? I
don't think a LGPLv2 library comes from a GPL v3 source file.

Jeff

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 01:22 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Libtasn1 is a standalone library written in C for manipulating ASN.1
> objects including DER/BER encoding and DER/BER decoding.  Libtasn1 is
> used by GnuTLS to manipulate X.509 objects and by Shishi to handle
> Kerberos V5 packets.
> 
> Version 2.1 (released 2009-04-17)
> - Fix compilation failure on platforms that can't generate empty archives,
>   e.g., Mac OS X.  Reported by David Reiser <dbreiser at gmail.com>.
> 
> Commercial support contracts for Libtasn1 are available, and they help
> finance continued maintenance.  Simon Josefsson Datakonsult AB, a
> Stockholm based privately held company, is currently funding Libtasn1
> maintenance.  We are always looking for interesting development
> projects.  See http://josefsson.org/ for more details.
> 
> If you need help to use Libtasn1, or want to help others, you are
> invited to join the help-gnutls mailing list, see:
> <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnutls>.
> 
> Homepage:
>   http://josefsson.org/libtasn1/
> 
> Here are the compressed sources (1.6MB):
>   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/libtasn1-2.1.tar.gz
>   http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/libtasn1-2.1.tar.gz
> 
> Here are GPG detached signatures using key 0xB565716F:
>   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/libtasn1-2.1.tar.gz.sig
>   http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/libtasn1-2.1.tar.gz.sig
> 
> The software is cryptographically signed by the author using an
> OpenPGP key identified by the following information:
> 
> pub   1280R/B565716F 2002-05-05 [expires: 2010-02-22]
>       Key fingerprint = 0424 D4EE 81A0 E3D1 19C6  F835 EDA2 1E94 B565 716F
> uid                  Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org>
> uid                  Simon Josefsson <jas at extundo.com>
> sub   1280R/4D5D40AE 2002-05-05 [expires: 2009-04-21]
> 
> The key is available from:
>   http://josefsson.org/key.txt
>   dns:b565716f.josefsson.org?TYPE=CERT
> 
> Here are the SHA-1 and SHA-224 checksums:
> 
> 884cc6609d7694a834a767b4b2975d6c5ab0d566  libtasn1-2.1.tar.gz
> 
> 3e78a2af893cde0eda9820d46077bde6f1a6b083b3cc2ed90df2420d  libtasn1-2.1.tar.gz
> 
> Happy hacking,
> Simon
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