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"public domain" license acceptable?


From: Simon Josefsson
Subject: "public domain" license acceptable?
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:31:27 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

I want to integrate some ciphers in GC, and the Rijndael home page
<http://www.iaik.tu-graz.ac.at/research/krypto/AES/old/~rijmen/rijndael/>
link to some "Optimised C code v3.0" which look nice, but cary this
license:

 * This code is hereby placed in the public domain.
 *
 * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS ''AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS
 * OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
 * WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
 * ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
 * LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
 * CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
 * SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR
 * BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
 * WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE
 * OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE,
 * EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

The package is available from:

http://www.iaik.tu-graz.ac.at/research/krypto/AES/old/~rijmen/rijndael/rijndael-fst-3.0.zip

For comparison, the code in Libgcrypt appear to be based on an earlier
version of the same code.

Thanks,
Simon




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