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Am 31.05.2017 um 22:16 schrieb Chris Ballinger: > I think it's obvious at this point that making an independent > implementation of XEdDSA is possible without relying on any GPL OWS > code. There are only so many ways of writing extremely concise code > (see the rangeCheck function in Oracle v Google), so some similarities > are inevitable. Obviously translating code line-by-line is a > derivative work, but if you're implementing a crypto specification, > there are only so many ways to do a low level crypto operation without > jumping through hoops to look like you aren't copying some existing > code. > > This is all so ridiculous. If I arrange funding for a permissive > XEdDSA implementation and audit can we stop making personal attacks > and move on from this nonsense? > > On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Dave Cridland <d...@cridland.net > <mailto:d...@cridland.net>> wrote: > > On 31 May 2017 at 20:50, Sam Whited <s...@samwhited.com > <mailto:s...@samwhited.com>> wrote: > > On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Dave Cridland > <d...@cridland.net <mailto:d...@cridland.net>> wrote: > >> I call bullshit. > >> > >> He copy and pasted some code (and the comments!). > >> > >> The fact he did this then submitted it to another project without > >> attribution and flouting the licensing is actually besides the > point - > >> I have no idea in what parallel universe you can say that because > >> someone can copy and paste the code from one file to another this > >> means the spec is fine and anyone could knock out an > implementation. > > > > Anyone with an Ed25519 library can already create an implementation, > > as I've explained, none of that code is owed by OWS, it's all either > > from the public domain reference implementation, or it's simple math > > that many other libraries implement. If you're worried about > copying a > > handful of > > lines from signal, go copy them from any other ed25519 > > implementation. > > I really appreciate you trying to explain which parallel universe I > might have found myself in. > > But you did copy, amongst possibly other things, a constant-time > conditional-swap routine, along with the comments, from the > "additional" directory of a GPL library, so I can only assume that > copyright law works an entirely different way in this parallel > universe. Is it like patents in my universe, where a defence is that > the invention is obvious to one skilled in the art? We don't have that > defence for copyright in my universe. > > But your argument that XEdDSA is simple enough for anyone to implement > by copying other people's code is noted. > > Dave. > _______________________________________________ > Standards mailing list > Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards > <https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards> > Unsubscribe: standards-unsubscr...@xmpp.org > <mailto:standards-unsubscr...@xmpp.org> > _______________________________________________ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Standards mailing list > Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards > Unsubscribe: standards-unsubscr...@xmpp.org > _______________________________________________
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