Re: [PATCH] crypto: x86/aes-xts - change license to Apache-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause

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Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> As with the other AES modes I've implemented, I've received interest in
> my AES-XTS assembly code being reused in other projects.  Therefore,
> change the license to Apache-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause like what I used for
> AES-GCM.  Apache-2.0 is the license of OpenSSL and BoringSSL.
> 
> Note that it is difficult to *directly* share code between the kernel,
> OpenSSL, and BoringSSL for various reasons such as perlasm vs. plain
> asm, Windows ABI support, different divisions of responsibility between
> C and asm in each project, etc.  So whether that will happen instead of
> just doing ports is still TBD.  But this dual license should at least
> make it possible to port changes between the projects.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/crypto/aes-xts-avx-x86_64.S | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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