Re: copyright in one sourcefile of dcd
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:43:23AM +0200, Othmar Pasteka wrote:
> HI folks,
>
> i just took over the dcd package and looked through the files
> for copyright notices due to the old copyright file made by the
> former maintainer. in this copyright a file is mentioned which is
> "public domain software". i don't know what's the way debian
> handles this. below are the relevant comments from the source
> code about copyright:
>
> <quote>
>
> /* NIST Secure Hash Algorithm */
> /* heavily modified by Uwe Hollerbach <uh@alumni.caltech edu> */
> /* from Peter C. Gutmann's implementation as found in */
> /* Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier */
> /* Further modifications to include the "UNRAVEL" stuff, below */
>
> /* This code is in the public domain */
>
> </quote>
>
> maybe someone can tell me in how far this is free/non-free. well
> i don't know bruce schneier's AC and therefore i don't know what
> one can do with code from schneier's book maybe someone else
> knows.
I believe it's public domain, as the author says. There's no
evidence to say that public domain isn't being used in the
strict legal sense, which is clearly DFSG-Free.
--
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with
square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are.
-- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU
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