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Re: Crypto Patch: Legal Issues


From: Simon Peter
Subject: Re: Crypto Patch: Legal Issues
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:23:54 +0200

> > I was about the review Simon's patch.  What is the best way to
> > proceed.  More than one person works on this and I am confused about
> > how to deal with this.  Would it help if Simons work got in first,
> > or didn't you continue with this, but did you just pick pieces of
> > code from him instead?
> I used his "crypto" module, which manages the available ciphers and
> hashes. I did however make some changes to that, and I also replaced
> Simon's AES and RIPEMD implementations with ones from libgcrypt. I
> gather that there was a problem with the license of those
> implementations, and so I think that it may be easier for me to
> submit Simon's patch along with mine. My "luks" module also has a lot
> of code in common with Simon's "devmapper" module (which handles
> non-LUKS encrypted partitions), and so I'm planning to incorporate
> that functionality in my "luks" module.

In the meantime, I've assigned copyright of my work (excluding the AES
and RIPEMD implementations) to the FSF. The documents are probably
already waiting in my mailbox at home. I'll get the signing done once
I'm back home at the end of this month.

 -- Simon




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