On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Ted Krovetz <t...@krovetz.net> wrote:
> At last month's Workshop on Real-World Cryptography at Stanford > University, Phil Rogaway released a new license for OCB, granting free use > for all open-source implementations. > > http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/license1.pdf > There's a problem with that license, though: "Open Source Software Implementation does not include any Software Implementation in which the software implicating the Licensed Patents is combined, so as to form a larger program, with software that is not Open Source Software." This restriction seems OK for GPL'ed libraries (because they have a similar restriction anyway), but not for libraries that are meant to be available for use in programs that are not necessarily open source. Thus, as much as I like OCB, I'd rather keep it out of OpenSSL for now. Bodo
