On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:43:23AM +0200, Othmar Pasteka wrote: > HI folks, > > i just took over the dcd package and looked through the files > for copyright notices due to the old copyright file made by the > former maintainer. in this copyright a file is mentioned which is > "public domain software". i don't know what's the way debian > handles this. below are the relevant comments from the source > code about copyright: > > <quote> > > /* NIST Secure Hash Algorithm */ > /* heavily modified by Uwe Hollerbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED] edu> */ > /* from Peter C. Gutmann's implementation as found in */ > /* Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier */ > /* Further modifications to include the "UNRAVEL" stuff, below */ > > /* This code is in the public domain */ > > </quote> > > maybe someone can tell me in how far this is free/non-free. well > i don't know bruce schneier's AC and therefore i don't know what > one can do with code from schneier's book maybe someone else > knows.
I believe it's public domain, as the author says. There's no evidence to say that public domain isn't being used in the strict legal sense, which is clearly DFSG-Free. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are. -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU
