On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 4:35 PM Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) < drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 17 Oct 2017 23:56, "Dima Pasechnik" <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at 10:52:47 PM UTC+1, Nicolas M. Thiéry > wrote: > >> > >> > > > The problem is that we cannot, as rightfully pointed here by Michael, > provide a tarball with OpenSSL source, as this > > would be an outright copyright violation. Thus we ought to rely on the > system libraries. > > There are a lot of number theorists using Sagemath. Could one or more > consider implementing the functionality of OpenSSL in a re-write? Maybe a > Google Summer of Code project? > Absolutely not. That's not how security software works (and would be insulting to the OpenSSL developers). You are **epically** understimating what OpenSSL is and does. If a subset of the SSL developers are happy to have the code they wrote > GPL, then there would be no need to rewrite those bits, if those > individuals would relicense the bits they personally wrote. That would > mean a rewrite of the bit written by by developers who will not relicense > what they wrote. > > Dave. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- William Stein -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
