On 1/22/09, Andreas Jellinghaus <a...@dungeon.inka.de> wrote:
>  the only one using the internal api is openssh, and it can be ported
>  to pkcs#11 - alon has done that, but it is a part of a huge change that
>  is unlikely to find many adopters (my personal guess - I think people
>  like that ssh is very easy and simple, and adding x.509 results in a quite
>  complex thing I guess).

It does not add X.509, you can use PKCS#11 patch without X.509 patch.

>  I think we should discuss this scenario:
>  is it ok if someone uses opensc, changes it as he likes, and published the
>  resulting code and binaries - with one file only published as *.o (his new
>  card driver)? I guess that captures the spirit of the LGPL quite nicely
>  and is quite usable too. (but I have not checked the wording of the LGPL
>  to find out if that is ok, and I'm no lawyer either...)

The driver is consider plugin in FSF terms, and it needs to be GPLed as well.

Alon.
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