Re: Question about RSA licence
Le Monday 31 October 2005 à 10:26:17, Florian Weimer a écrit:
> * ludovic rousseau:
>
> > The RSA disclaimer is [2]:
> >
> > " Regarding the header / include files:
> >
> > License to copy and use this software is granted provided that it is
> > identified as "RSA Security Inc. PKCS #11 Cryptographic Token Interface
> > (Cryptoki)" in all material mentioning or referencing this software or this
> > function.
>
> This is basically equivalent to the BSD advertising clause. It is
> incompatible with the GPL. This means that OpenSC cannot use it, even
> if these clauses were deemed DFSG-free.
OpenSC is LGPL (+RSA clause) (see [1]) not GPL so OpenSC has no problem.
The problems are for GPL applications that want to use OpenSC.
They can't :-(
Bye,
[1] http://www.opensc.org/opensc/wiki/AuthorsAndCredits
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