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"public domain" license acceptable?
From: |
Simon Josefsson |
Subject: |
"public domain" license acceptable? |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:31:27 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
I want to integrate some ciphers in GC, and the Rijndael home page
<http://www.iaik.tu-graz.ac.at/research/krypto/AES/old/~rijmen/rijndael/>
link to some "Optimised C code v3.0" which look nice, but cary this
license:
* This code is hereby placed in the public domain.
*
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS ''AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS
* OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
* WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
* ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
* LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
* CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
* SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR
* BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
* WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE
* OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE,
* EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
The package is available from:
http://www.iaik.tu-graz.ac.at/research/krypto/AES/old/~rijmen/rijndael/rijndael-fst-3.0.zip
For comparison, the code in Libgcrypt appear to be based on an earlier
version of the same code.
Thanks,
Simon
- "public domain" license acceptable?,
Simon Josefsson <=