Re: SRP

[Andres Salomon <dilinger@voxel.net>]

On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 09:23:07 +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:

> Andres Salomon <dilinger@voxel.net>:
> 
>> I'm not sure how to interpret this; I'm not familiar enough w/ SRP-Z.  Is
>> this a different algorithm, such that the source would need to be
>> significantly modified (such that SRP-Z is essentially a separate thing,
>> convered by its own license; converting SRP-3 to SRP-Z is just as
>> difficult as converting openssh to SRP-Z)?  Is this merely a layer on top
>> of SRP-3 (thereby restricting a derived work, and making it
>> DFSG-incompatible)?  
> 
> If you take that argument to its "logical conclusion" then no software
> is DFSG-free, because patents restrict all derived works. (Given any
> free software, it is possible to modify it so that it infringes some
> patent that is being actively enforced; therefore no free software can
> be freely modified.)

Exactly, which is why I'm wondering how different SRP-Z is..