Thanks William and Ertetlen for clarifying:
On 25/05/15 10:09 PM, William Whyte wrote:
Hi Ertetlen,
The base license for NTRU is GPL v2 or higher. However, there's a
license to distribute NTRU under GPL alongside open source projects that
exist under other licenses: see details at
https://git
On 25/05/15 02:50:50 PM, Douglas Ray wrote:
> 2. The "FOSS exception" clause above won't help with existing
> OpenBSD policy, insofar as I understand it here:
> http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
> [note section towards end on GPL under "Specific Cases"]
FWIW, a BSD-licensed NTRU implementa
No clarification needed: NTRU is patented, with no "free for all" patent
grant. It is a complete non-starter for OpenBSD or OpenSSH.
On Tue, 26 May 2015, Douglas Ray wrote:
> Thanks William and Ertetlen for clarifying:
>
>
> On 25/05/15 10:09 PM, William Whyte wrote:
> > Hi Ertetlen,
> >
> > T
> No clarification needed: NTRU is patented, with no "free for all" patent
> grant. It is a complete non-starter for OpenBSD or OpenSSH.
Damien is right.
It is patented, meaning they want money. They are willing to allow
GPL projects to play along, because this creates a base to extract
money fr
Okembe Mbwambo [okembe.mbwa...@yandex.com] wrote:
> On 25/05/15 02:50:50 PM, Douglas Ray wrote:
>
> > 2. The "FOSS exception" clause above won't help with existing
> > OpenBSD policy, insofar as I understand it here:
> > http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
> > [note section towards end on GPL u
26.05.2015, 23:08, "Chris Cappuccio" :
>> FWIW, a BSD-licensed NTRU implementation exists at
>> https://github.com/tbuktu/libntru and while it is patent encumbered, it
>> offers a compile switch that causes it to become patent free in 2017 as
>> opposed to the GPL implementation which will be
-tech+m42...@openbsd.org
To: tech@openbsd.org
Subject: OpenBSD/NTRU policy mismatch [Was: NTRU Open Source Project /
Post-quantum era]
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 20:50:29 +0200
> On 25/05/15 02:50:50 PM, Douglas Ray wrote:
>
> > 2. The "FOSS exception" clause above won't hel
