I've received a (final?) response from Direccion General de la Policía (DGP) about a question I sent them about the posibility of dual-licensing DNIe code under LGPL for inclusion into OpenSC:
----------------------------------------------------------------------- En cuanto a sus observaciones sobre la posibilidad de incluir el código del módulo pkcs11 del DNIe en su proyecto, sentimos que la modificación en las políticas de OpenSC en cuanto a la mecanismos de inclusión e invocación suponga la imposibilidad de incorporar el código publicado al mainstream de OpenSC. Efectivamente, el tipo de licencia elegido para el código fuente del módulo pkcs11 del DNIe es incompatible con la inserción de dicho código en un producto bajo licencia LGPL. A este respecto le comunicamos que se ha elegido el tipo de licencia GPLv3, compatible con la EUPL, en base al contenido del R.D. 4/2010 por el que se estimula la reutilización y transferencia de la tecnología en los términos descritos en el marco europeo de interoperabilidad. La finalidad última de la liberación del código es que sirva de estímulo y base de conocimiento a los desarrolladores interesados en esta tecnología. Sentimos que esta postura de máxima difusión, largamente esperada por distintas comunidades de desarrolladores, afecte negativamente a su proyecto. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'll try to translate (excuses for my bad english): On your notes about the possibility to include DNIe module into your project, we apologize that modifications of OpenSC's politics on adding code into their project becomes the imposibility of adding published code into OpenSC mainstream Efectively, chosen licence for DNIe code poblishing is incompatible with the insertion of that code into a project licensed under LGPL About this election, we can tell you that chosen license GPLv3 is compatible with EUPL on R.D 4/2010 on reusing and technology transfer stimulus for eurpean interoperability mechanisms The intention on publishing this code is to serve as knowledge base for developers interested in this technology. We're sorry that this politics of maximum aperture, largelly expected for several comunities of developers will affect negativelly to your project ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In short: DGP says that is in peace with law, in compliant with european directives of interoperability, and apologizes for being stealing OpenSC software during two years, to finally resulting on no possible technology return to OpenSC project Martin: I'll send you last updated patches to DGP's DNIe code (functional and synced to last svn tree), and look for some people to start an independent and really free development for a LGPL'd DNIe code to become part of OpenSC. I apologize for our politicians and authorities. Sorry Juan Antonio
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