On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:34:41AM +0200, Carlos Prados wrote: > Hi, > > I'm packaging POC from http://poc.crackinghacking.de/ > > The program is distributed under GPL, but I have observed several > irregularities, and so I wanted to ask wheter it's DFSG compliant or not: > > * It includes and statically links sha2.c from > http://www.aarongifford.com/computers/sha.html, which is BSD licensed > (without advertising clause). I think they are compatible but I'm not > sure.
This is fine.
>
> * It copies sources blowfish.c, and rijndael.c from gnupg (also GPL) which
> have been lightly modified to remove some unneeded funtions and some
> datatypes. The problem is that the author has replaced the Copyright
> holder notice with it's own.
>
Including the files is fine. Changing the copyright notice is not.
At a minimum, the copyright of the original author must also be
mentioned.
> Also I'm not sure wheter the cyphering algorithms blowfish and
> rijndael (aes) force the program to go to non-US or it can be put into
> main.
It needs to go into nonus, barring a change in policy on crypto.
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