Ägypten: Smartcards

[Andreas Jellinghaus]

> An alternative for OpenSC was SCEZ, but here also the license
> (old BSD with advertisement clause) made us prefer the LGPL
> licensed OpenSC.

scez is more likeley an alternative to muscle, since it's pkcs code is
nearly non-existant. but it also has serveral drivers but not as much,
but the author tests the driver with his collection of smartcards and
publishes the results. also scez is one package and as such easy to
install and use, where muscle is a framework with the drivers and apps
being distributed in other packages, and assembly is more work.

the copyright statement is misleading, see below.

> http://www.franken.de/crypt/scez.html
> 	SCEZ - Smart Card Library (License: old BSD)

scez is itself (> 28000 lines of code), but includes the
serial library sio with ~ 4000 lines of code.

scez itself is dual licenced with BSD (without advertising clause)
and LGPL version 2, so the licence is fine. but it might be necessary
to replace the serial library sio, since this has the odd BSD licence
with the odd advertisement clause.

if you are interested in scez, there is the 1.0 release version,
and there is a cvs server with an improved version:
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:cvs@cvs.gnumonks.org:/cvsroot login
    to login with the password "cvs". To download the sources run
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:cvs@cvs.gnumonks.org:/cvsroot checkout -P scez

(yesterday there were two very small bugs with compiling, fixed them,
 did send patch to the author.)
 
regards, andreas