On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 2:56 AM, Christopher <ctubbsii@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 6:16 PM Igor Gnatenko <ignatenko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have some questions about OCB[0] and it's usage in Fedora. >> >> I wanted to package pycryptodome[1] and found that they implement OCB >> in their code. From my POV (completely without any legal knowledge) it >> seems that it's not completely free[2] as it's not allowed for >> military use. It seems to be allowed without any restrictions only for >> OpenSSL. >> >> What do you think? Looks like now we have mosh[3] packaged and it >> includes OCB (so if it's not acceptable, it most probably should be >> removed). >> >> >> [0] http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/ >> [1] https://pycryptodome.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ >> [2] http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/license.htm >> [3] https://mosh.org >> -- >> -Igor Gnatenko >> > > I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me that OCB is available to be implemented > under 4 different license options: > 1. Any open source software licensed under an approved license by OSI or > public domain. > 2. General license for non-military use. > 3. OpenSSL-specific use. > 4. Special license from the patent owner. > > Only option 2 has the non-military restriction, and anything in Fedora would > almost certainly fall under 1 or 3. So, I can't imagine there'd be a problem > using the OCB patent in Fedora software. I'm actually not even sure why > option 3 even exists, since it seems to be a subset of option 1. Regardless, > it doesn't look like the non-military restriction of option 2 would apply if > option 1 is used. Unfortunately I don't know how licenses applies, so if program is licensed under OSI-approved license then 2nd license doesn't apply anymore? > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- -Igor Gnatenko _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
