On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:46:34AM +0000, Martin Mathieson wrote: > I still don't know if the algorithms are covered by patents, and don't have > more time to look into it today. They seem to be saying that its access to > the 'algorithm specifications' (which in this case includes a reference > implementation) which is restricted. So if we couldn't re-implement the > algorithm without reading the spec, it wouldn't do us any good. > > I used the reference implementation to test that I was correctly gathering > the inputs and passing them to the f8/f9 functions. Again, I believe that > interface is generic (a form of the same args described in non-restricted > specifications, and passed to the one algorithm we can use). Removing the > calls to the f8/f9 functions wouldn't cause any variable-not-used warnings > as they won't be compiled either without HAVE_SNOW3G being defined. > > Assuming we can't include any implementation of snow-3g (I hope I'm wrong, > and thanks for the offer, Jeorg), I'd like to leave it as it is, but with > the #include removed, and maybe more information given in a comment. Anyone > can get the code, and anyone working for an organisation that has paid the > fee can use it. Is it not OK to link GPL code with whatever you want, as > long as you don't distribute it? Checking in the code I did was more so > that it would be easy for me to maintain a small diff and easily continue > to contribute to the dissector, rather than give people an easy way to > violate license agreements. > > I will check in a minimal change described above for now, but will respect > the consensus this doesn't go far enough.
Sounds good! In case it isn't patented: I can google for the document and download it via the links. It doesn't look like the site(s) I found the documents on are pirate sites (I send one URL earlier) and I didn't click on any license agreement, so if you could provide me with an include file (and ideally with a stub c file), I would try to do an implementation of snow-3g. It would be up to you to test. ciao Jörg -- Joerg Mayer <jma...@loplof.de> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe