The DES code did come out of a GPL project and I'm quite surprised, that is not a GPL agreement. I'd have to say on my experience that the overal site licence will have to hold, the individual file licence is just out of date (Or indeed the source came from an external source which wanted the source to be free of restrictions, alas that intent has been lost).
The MD4 licence still requires that the licence remain with the source code and binary. Might be worth getting in contact with the parties and seeing if it can be released under the apache licence instead...you never know it might come back positive. Paul R Keeble >I have a couple of issues though which are based around legalities and >licences and would like to get opinions from more experienced people and >perhaps some alternatives if required. NTLM uses both DES (ECB, no padding) >and MD4 encription for which I have found existing implementations in Java >under licenses that my company seems to be able to use, but which may not be >able to be integrated into HttpClient. I have been unable to get Sun's DES >implementation (from the JCE) to correctly encrypt the string, plus it adds >a dependency that I'd like to avoid (the JCE, which is slow to load and not >available in a default install before 1.4). For server side code (like what >Jakarta focusses on) getting the JCE to work is probably the best option, >but I happen to be developing an Applet so it's annoying to have to add so >much extra download. > >Opinions on the best way to go about this and on the compatibility of >licenses would be appreciated. > >The DES code was taken out of the JCIFS project (http://jcifs.samba.org/) >which is GPL and thus obviously incompatible. However the following license >is included at the top of the source code file that I need: <snip> >For the MD4 the license is: > >Copyright (c) 2000 The Legion Of The Bouncy Castle >(http://www.bouncycastle.org) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
