New licence for cryto++ code-base
Please cc me, I'm not on this list.
Can someone give a cursory glance over this licence for any
non-DFSG-ness?
--
Stephen
"And what do we burn apart from witches?"... "More witches!"
(Please note this license only applies to version 4.1 or later. Earlier
versions are covered under a slightly more restrictive license.)
Compilation Copyright (c) 1995-2001 by Wei Dai. All rights reserved.
This copyright applies only to this particular software distribution
package, and does not imply a copyright on any particular file in
the library.
All files in this library except the following are placed in
the public domain by Wei Dai and other contributers.
The following files are copyrighted by their respective original authors.
haval.cpp - Copyright 1992 Yuliang Zheng.
idea.cpp - Copyright 1992 Colin Plumb.
mars.cpp - Copyright 1998 Brian Gladman.
md2.cpp - Copyright 1994, 1995 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
serpent.cpp - Copyright 1998, 1999 Brian Gladman and Sam Simpson.
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